In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 29, 10 January 1916, Page 5

In the Balkans

! MONTENEGRIN OPERATIONS

i ON THE SERBIAN FRONTIER

[U'NUfciU I'inv" *pSROn , ATTON.I Cettinje, January 8. A communique states: There is furious aght.ing in the K'.ra-ne district, i'tia enemy which comprised twenty battalions, suffered heavy losses, while ours were considerable. We held the majority of positions, excepting those at Gpdocha and Godreyo. An Austrian communique states:— General von Koevess has driven the Montenegrins to positions north of Berane, and our advanced troops are within ten kilometres of Berane. ON THE KERZEGOVIUiAN FRONTIER. v London, January 8. A Montenegrin communique says:— The Austr'ians attacked Godrevo and Turiak, and there have been important enemy movements at Bilek and Trebinje.

PLANS FOR ATTACK ON SALONIKA.

Athens. January 8

Austria, Germany, ' and Bulgaria have completed plans for an immediate attack towards Salonika. There are conflicting reports whether the Turks will participate.

ARREST OF ENEMY CONSULAR ACENTS AT MITYLENE.

(Received 10.0 a.m.). Amsterdam, .January 9. The Allies arrested th e enemy Consular agents at Mitylene for the same reasons as influenced the Salonika arrests.

THE AIR RAID ON HASKEI.

3000 CASUALTIES REPORTED.

(Received 10.0 a.m.)

Athens, January 0

On the occasion of the bombing of Haskei cabled on the 27th, 3000 Turkish and German Jew workers were killed or wounded.

ENEMY AIR RAIDS.

(Received 10 a.m.) Athens, January 9„

Details of the air raid cabled on Saturday show that 80 bombs fell on the western part of Salonika. Two of the enemy aviators were captured. Airmen's bombs- killed five British soldiers at Endagasa. > - CREEK TROOPS ON THE / FRONTIER.

DEMAND FOR REDUCTION, OR REMOVAL.

(Received 10 a.m.)

Athens, January ( )

I Germany has asked for a re.duct.ion •of the Greek troops on the frontier lor the removal of the force to a distance. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Salonika January 8. Two Taubes bombarded the Allied encampments outside the town, but did not do any serious damage. They were driven off damaged. London, January 7. A correspondent at Salonika states that the generals commanding the Third, Fourth and Fifth Greek Army Corps have informed the Government that they will lie unable to restrain the men if the Turks and Bulgars appear. One brigade mutinied at Kavala. demanding war or demobilisation. The officers urged the men to vote, for the Government, but the men replied: "We will vote with our rirles, and against you first."

Cabinet is quarrelling, M. Rallis and M. Condounotis fiercely resisting the compact with Bulgaria. King-Constantino stated on December 27 that he believed the situation had changed and that ultimate victory bad slipped from German hands, though he expected Germany would be able to save her-prestige.

Queen Sophia is considerably depressed owing to recent letters from her sister Charlotte, the Princess of Saxe-Meiningen.

Greek opinion is that Egypt is Ger many's objective.

London, January 8

Mr Jeffries, the Daily Mail's Athens correspondent, says that Bulgarian cooperation with the Germans in Mace donia is less hearty, and while the Turks have reoccupied ostensibly strategical positions, they have ceded portions around the Dedeagatch-Adria-'noplc railway. The Germans meanwhile are busy with steady through railway traffic between Constantinople and Berlin. They are purchasing the entire Adana cotton crop and hall oi the previous crop, 'and are working ithe great Arghana copper mine, near Diabekir. As two years are required to complete the tunnel through' the Taurus range at the Ciliciaa gate.

near Boyanti, on the Bagdad railway. the Germans'made parallel roads an•! are employing the largest motor lorries, travelling from Boyahti to Dorok in three hours. The hue i- now finished co Marmores, a distance oi* one hundred miles, when -e there is a light railway to Bagtcbe. Thousands oi na-

tives, under engineers who have been j withdrawn from the first line of armies, are energetically completing, by ,tho spring, the Bagt'me Radja sc-c----t;on, and there will be rben con'inu'ous communication bc-wr-'i Aleppo land Constantinople, including the 'Cilician motor-car link. There is much uncertainty whether, in view of the danger of certain railway bridges being "dynamited, and the nrosoecii or a I great offensive from Salonika, t.-e [Germans would risk sending to Asia the large forcer, necessary to give them j victory there. I