BALKANS, ITALY, OR RUSSIA?

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2951, 11 December 1916, Page 5

BALKANS, ITALY, OR RUSSIA?

SARRAIL THREATENED BY GREECE CONSTANTIE'S TREACHERY UNMASKED MR. BALFOUR TO BE NEW FOREIGN MINISTER ; SIR EDWARD CARSON AT THE ADMIRALTY' ' i • Everybody is speculating- on the direction of the enemy's next move on land. Some say the Balkans; others Italy—the. Italian 1 Press is insistent upon this; while others again suggost a forward move from Bucharest in tho direction of Bessarabia and Odessa. The situation in Greece is sufficiently alarming and unsatisfactory to create tho opinion that King Constantino, whose treachery has been innocently unmasked by the Hungarian Premier's hint of' a good and workable understanding, will attack our Balkan forces in rear, a contingency that bas been uppermost in General Sarrail's mind recently 1 In the meantime Greece is in the grip of a oloso blockade. Mr, Lloyd George has almost completed his Cabinet. Mr. A. J. Balfour passes from the Admiralty to the Foreign Office, with Lord Robert Cecil as Under-Seorctary, as at present. Sir Edward Grey replaces him at the Admiralty. Sir Robert Finlay (some time Attor-ney-General, 1900-1906) is to be' Lord Chancellor, Lord Milner is to be a member of the War Council, without portfolio. Mr. Lloyd George, it is stated, was only just in time to stop the peace intrigue, which had reached an advanoed stage.