THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 December 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

I IXKOru'iC TRMGHAPC—coPr«i'OB(r. > S PBII I'UKBB ASSOCIATION. • '» _ » THE BALKAN SITUATION. London, Dec. <. Tlie Daily Telegraph's Milan correspondent says that despatches from tho Italian correspondents at (Salonika an.l Athens indicate that there is a very serious situation to the Allies' disadvantage and there is nothing to show that the reports are exaggerated.

•King Constantino's inttieii'tions ai'e still veiled in mystery, causing the Allies growing concern. Dflgpite. enormous financial difficulties the. Greek military preparations are teing feverishly hastened audi secretly intensified. Fresh, decrees appear daily covering particular exigencies of eventual war. New uniforms aro being distributed, together •with winter outfits. Improved strategic positions fiave been strongly occupied. Officers' pay has been increased. Athens, Dec. 7. King- Constanttine, in an audience with a Tiniest-representative, expressed himself as deeply grieved and Hurt at the suspicions which had; been express, e ! in regard to his intentions and sentiments. He saM -lie preferred England to all other countries.

He added: "I> have given tlie most solemn assurances that Greece will nev >r -cherish designs against the Allies. Jt is an insult to think that Greece and its king would be capaQe ot Treachery."

General Pallis lias gone to Salonika t'- confer with General Sarrail regarding demands for fnciltiies for the ifintente's troops. Amsterdam, Dec. <. Germans fyom Constantinople claim that two million Turks""will be armed in the spring for an expedition to Egypt, and that they trill he ready early in January. Sydney, December 7. The Underwriters' Association has received advice from London that "war rates on steamers via the Suez Canal have been increased half per cent. London. Dec. 7. Sir John French reports an air raid on the Don station. A munition store was blown up and several fires were observed at Don. All the aviators returned safely. The artillery bombardment of the enemy's trenches continues. A bomb factory was blown up at Iginette. Mining activities continues on both sides

The weather is very wet and stormy. BRITISH SUBMARINE ACTIVK. "" London. Dec. 6. The High Commissioner reports: In the Sea of Marmora on Thursday a British submarine fired into and damaged th'e Tsmid railway. On Friday the same submarine torpedoed and sunk the Turkish destroyer Yar Hassar outside the Gulf of Tsmid. Two officers and forty men tvere picked up and placed on hoard a sailing vessel.

On Saturday the submarine sank a supply steamer of 3000 tons by gunfire and destroyed four sailing vessels and supply earners.