LOOMING STORM AT SALONIKA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2669, 15 January 1916, Page 5

LOOMING STORM AT SALONIKA

ENEMY CONVERGING FROM THREE SIDES DESPERATE ASSAULT PENDING \ NO HOPE FOR THE MONTENEGRINS ( > IMPOSSIBLE TO SUCCOUR THE ARMY THE ATTACK ON THE ' . CANAL

The situation in the Balkans i 3 darkened by the sinister fate which confronts tjie Montenegrins. A Paris message states that it is impossible to succeur, or reviptual, the Mpntenegrin Army, and Cettinje's days are numbered. Their stand against the Austrian attack was "an epic," but futile in the face of the cverwhelming deluge ef men and shells. The pending assault on Salpnika is slpwly assuming definite shape, and desperate events are imminent. The hostile forces are converging to the attack from three points, and the Allies, as part of their defensive tactics, have destroyed two important railway bridges commanding approaches to the position. Mr. Hilaire Belloc discusses in interesting language the >|Turce-Gcrmaii plans for the big attack on Egypt, and a map is given to-day tp assist the reader to picture the situation. The news- from the Russian front is pieagre. It is new clear that the recent pffensive in Bukpwina was of great assistance to the. Allies en the pther fronts, for the enemy, in •order to save his armies from disaster, was forced to weaken his lines elsewhere, in order tp heavily rpinforce en the Russian front In the West there are no develppments of startling magnitude. Tho enemy's trenches at' several points on the Lille, road, in Artois, were destroyed, 'end in tho Champagne region the enemy's nttempts to, attack were stopped dead. - The British Miners' Federation has unanimously decided to oppose the Conscription Bill