HARD-FOUGHT RETREAT TO SALONIKA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2644, 15 December 1915, Page 5

HARD-FOUGHT RETREAT TO SALONIKA

—■ BRITISH IN A TIGHT PLACE SAVED BY TM MILLINGS WILL THE' BULGARS ENTER GREECE? / REPORTED FIGHT IN THE.HACK SEA . THE " SILENT BATTLE" AT' ' ANZAC Ejrfh successive day's budget of news from the Balkans -sharpens ' the impression that the strategic' retreat of the Allies to Salonika has been, an operation fraught with extreme danger, in view of tho over- " • whelming numbers of the enemy. To-day there comes a story which Bhows.that only by a vigorous connter-attaclj, marked b/ the heroic gallantry of the Inniskillings in a deadly rearguard action, were the • ' Bulgars prevented from .accomplishing an envelopment. The retreat of the Allies is now proceeding according to plan, and the next quesv tion is: Will tho Bulgars follow the Allies into : Greece? The Austrians are attempting to bulldoze the Montenegrins into submission. "Surrender, or be exterminated?" is, in effect, the purport of a pro. ' ■ clamation which is being scattered about the Austrian front in Montenegro. King Constantine has given an audience to the diplomats, • and is reported to,have sent his visitors away in a satisfied state of mind. Bucharest'reports a lively fight in the Black Sea, resulting in the destruction, by the Russians, of two Turkish gunboats and a „■ 'Bubmarine, while the ex-German battle-cruiser. Goeben is stated to havb been damaged. Townshend's division in Mesopotamia has been : determinedly attacked by the enemy, with great loss to the attackers. There have been lively artillery engagements on the Western front.