GREECE BLOCKADED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2950, 9 December 1916, Page 9

GREECE BLOCKADED

, .- .. | ■ ■•••■ . Mr.' Lloyd l George is making good headway with; his' Cabinet • construction, and has achieved a-happy understanding with the Labour Party with his forecast'of sweeping, measures for State control ,of food supplies, prices, transport, and production.'' Prices are to be regulated, and farmers are to be assisted, with the best?*machinery, -to get the best returns in home-grow n supplies, j His "one ' single / . plank is the winning of the war, and this note of determination -. has created some apprehension in the German. Press. The situation in Rumania, now that Bucharest has passed into the hands of the enemy, appears at present to be in a. state of suspense—what is to.be ■ the next move? The Rumanian Army is; said to be practically in--tact, and lis taking .up a pre-arranged line, -where the Russians have • -been concentrated. In tho Dobrudja tho : Russian' offensive has ceased,\ and they are "digging-in" their holding positions, In the Balkans the. enemy has made a series of heavy counter-attacks- ' . .on tho Serbian front, and regained certain positions in the : Sokol -sector. "Tho Times"' correspond cut suggests that Von Mackensen may elect to attack the Allies' Balkan front through Serbia, utilising his control of tho railway. Greece has been blockaded, and!' : will continue in that situation -until full reparation has been made for - the recent attacks on l the Allies' troops and the Venizelists. "The ' Times' correspondent; at Amsterdam states that the Germans propose to.institute a ruthless war on. merchant shipping. v '