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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 December 1915, Page 3

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(KeceiveU This Day y.lO a.m.) ibWVJiUJi WEATHER IN THE BALJiAiNS.

Salonika, Dw. d. The ii attack in the Vardar Valloy i≤ coutined to three or tour gorges where alone the Bulgarians can debouch from the mountains. The lest of the line is impermeable except to the irregular bands of comitadijis. The cold has been intensified by piercing winds. A party ot Anglo-l'Yeneli saw some Bulgarians 20U yards* away, but both parties were too overcome by the' cold bo attack. The wolves have been driven in by Hunger to the outskirts of the military camps niglitly. The British and Frenwi War Offices, early and energetically commenced to revictual and re-equip tln> Serbians, via Albanian ports, the iirst supplies arriving in Albania some days ago.

(Received This Day 10.10 a.m.) THE POSITION IN -UItEECE. London, Dec. y. Dr Dillon, in the Daily Telegraph, states that the Allies probably will obtain their minimum demands from Greece, but will only hold it by intimidation, ae the obstacles are almost insuperable. The chief wire-puller is Dr, Skoit, an ox-minister, of Austrian

descent whose strategy tripped i\T. Venizelos. Thousands of, T3reeU officers and civil servants and tens or thousands or their friends are propogating fhe

"mailed fist" doctrine everywhere, and armies of spies end a contingent of contrabandists thwart the Allies at every turn, while Government agents

frustrate every effort to track the trcaciiuious'ieueiiiiee to tiieir lairs, it us wrong to suppose that jvnig Constantmo aione is blameworthy lor- misleading a auvalrous people. Actually tiie antipathy to the Anglo-i , rench is widespread. The fact us that Greece may be cowed into a passive resistance, but her promises are worthless, and the military situation ia grave.

(Received This Day 11.30 a.m.; UIIJfiEUE LX NOVEMUMI. London, Dec. U. The Daily. Telegraph's Salonika despatch, dated November 2ti, was mailed in order to escape pro-uerman censorship. It gives irremtaole facts to show now the crisis tlieu arose. The Ureek authorities at the outset evidenced a veiled hostility. The prico of goods was doubled or trebled", and a supertax \vas imposed on train transports. Then the Greek Government demanded prepayment in gold. This was submitted; to. Then the Allies rented houses and hired . horses and

vehicles. The Greek military stopped this and claimed them lor their own use. -The Greek doionces of Salonika Uay were secretly strengthened, and submarine mines wetre secretly stored iu the trenches, entanglements constructed on the heights facing the Allies camp, and even the Ijreek artillery was trained thereon. a Greek onieer openly discused when the Germans would arrive to help to '-drive the Allies in the sea." Pro-Allies officers were removed from their posts and sent to distant stations , and GreeK troops occupied uowly-fortiiied positions, threatenm<? the Allies. A threat of a blockade was made on 19th .November. The correspondent proceeds to say that the situation at Salonika on .November 21st was so critical owing to ureek military activities that the Allies suspected the Greeiis were preparing to attack immediately. Tli fleet was cleared; lor action, and shipping ordered to sail. A constant watch was.j£ept all night. • There ia a possibility that the fleet's readiness became known., for nothing happened, and thereafter negotiations were resumed, on the-French basis.

HIGH COMMISSIONER-S REPORT. London, Dec. y. In tile Champagne, in the couiise 01 the night our aeroplanes continued to bombard the German positions, destroying a munitions clopot soutn. oi St. Sou pie. A French couuter-ettaoK east ol Jiiitte <le Souain has continued to hurl back the enemy who now. only hold a portion ot an advanced trench, where ho is unable to establish himself, in the Argonne the French successfully exploded two mines in the region'of High Chevmiche.

(Received This Day 12.30 p.m.)

A 13ULGAMAA COMMUNIQUE.

AThsteruam, .Nov. V. A Bulgarian communique, dated 7th, status that the pursuit of Ihe French' on botli bides of the \ar<tor continues Wo ocoiipietl Demirkpu railway station and now arc twelve kilometres cast thereof. We enc.rcJed the village or Grabica on fchr e <; sides alter a hot battle lasting till midnight. One column attacked the French near the village of 1 Qtroz annihilating a baTtalion with p bayonet attack, and capturing its encampment. We attacked the Anglo-iM-ench on the entire front south of ivostiiTino, taking prisoner 114 British soldiers and two guns. After a stubborn battle we occupied Ochrida. We took enormous booty atUjnkova including 1« guns and) 100 caissons.