NO ATTACK ON SALONIKA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2693, 12 February 1916, Page 5

NO ATTACK ON SALONIKA

ENEMY PREFERS TRENCH WARFARE POLICY STATEMENT BY GREEK PREMIER ("Times ,, and Sydney "Sun" Services.) Athens, February 10. •xhe newspaper u Pafcris n learns from a semi-official German source tnat the German Headquarters Staff has decided to abandon tho attack ou Salonika, and instead will resort to trench warfare. German engineers aro being sent to Macedonia for that purpose. STATEMENT OF GREEK POLICY ' NEUTRALITY. AT ALL COSTS. (Rec. February 11, 10.30 p.m.) Athens, February 10. Mr. Martin Donohoe reports that the Greek Premier (M. Skouloudis) has made a statement to Parliament on the policy of the Government—which, ho said, was endorsed by tho Chamber. The keynoto of the statement was neutrality.. This policy, 'as the evolution of events had shown, was tho best safeguard to keep the country from disaster. They hoped to bo able to save Greece from tho dangers which were menacing her, owing to the colossal international struggle, and tho pressure which had been brought, to bear ou Grcccn ,fco induce her to dcoart from her noliov of neutrality. Such pressure micht

increase, but whatever the influence, and whatever the coercion, the intention of Greecc—and her indisputable right—was to roinatu outside the snuggle, which was foreign to her national interests He protested agjunst the violation of Greek sovereign rights which had been involved 111 the occupation by the Allies of IGtraburnu and Corfu. THE RESCUE OF THE SERBIAN ARMY A :WOKD OF PRAISE FOR THE ALLIES. (Rec. February 11, 10.30 p.m.) Paris, February 10. M. Vesnitch, the Serbian Minister at Paris, in an interview, thanks France and her Allies for saving 150,000 men of tho Serbian Army. The activity of M. Briand (the French Premier) and General Joffre liad secured for Franco the devotion of the Slavs. Tho "Gaulois" remarks that Britain and Italy have participated in a marvellous operation in rescuing the Serbian Army, to which task they brought an activity and devotion above all praise. Everything was achieved without a hitch, and silently. THE ARRESTED TEUTON CONSULS. (Rec. February 11, 10.30 p.m.) Athens, February 10. The Austro-German Consuls who were arrested at Mityl?ne have been released at Toulon (France). RUSSIAN COAL FOR RUMANIA Bucharest, February 10. The Russians are sending enormous quantities of coal to Rumania. The Rumanian Export Committee has decided to sell 100,000 wagon-loads of cereals to the Central Powers. RAIDING BANDS IN PERSIA London, February 10. _ A French wireless message states that the Russians in Persia are continually pushing back mixed bands of Kurds and Turks under German officers.