GREECE ANXIOUS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 30 November 1915, Page 5

GREECE ANXIOUS

TO SATISFY ALOES’ DEMANDS MUST NOT IMPERIL HER NEUTRALITY SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT IN SERVIA KITCHENER IN ITALY WITNESSES BOMBARDMENT OF GORIZIA DECORATED BY ITALY’S KING —— ■ 1 a* HE LEAVES, GOING HOMEWARDS

THE ALLIES’ NOTE

HUNGARIANS ’ GREAT LOSSES,

GREEKS LONG DISCUSSION.

LONDON", Nov. 29.

POINTS DIFFICULT OF ACCEPT ANCE.

A DECISION NOT REACHED,

ATHENS, November 28.

Long discussions have been held on the Allies’ Note at successive Ministerial Councils, followed by repeated conferences with the headquarters Staff. M. Scouloudis has not yet reached a decision. The Government journals point out certain points which are difficult to accept. GREECE WILL DISCUSS AND SATISFY ALLIES’ DEMANDS WILL NOT COMPROMISE NEUTRALITY. (Reed. 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 28. The Exchange Company’s Athens correspondent states that Greece is ready to discuss the Entente’s propositions and satisfy all demands which do not compromise their neutrality. AT MONASTIC. THE SITUATION IMPROVING. FRENCH RELIEVING PRESSURE. SALONIKA, Nov. f. 9. Advices from Monastir on Thursday state that the situation has improved. Four thousand recruits have joined the garrison. A French battery has arrived, and is co-operating with the Servians in the direction of Prilepe. THE GERMAN ADVANCE. CAVALRY BEFORE VELES. SALONIKA, Nov. 29. German cavalry have appeared before Veles.

THE SENUSSI FRIENDSHIP.

MINOR ACTS OF AGGRESSION,

THE STRUGGLE FOR KRUSHEVO.

ROME, Nov. 29,

A fresh struggle for the possession of Krushevo has begun. When reinforced, the Bulgarians began attacking the harassed Serbians. “WE WILL EE TRUE.” SERVIANS REPLY TO GERMANY. MONTENEGO ’S ANSWER. ROME, Nov. 29. The Milan newspaper Secolo says that M. Pasitch communicated Von Mackensen’s overtures to the Cabinet, saying, “Our way is marked out. We will be true to the Entente, and die honourably.” It is understood that Mackcnsbn made similar overtures to Montenegro. King Nicholas replied offering to send an army to die with the Serbians at, Kossovo. WAR RESEARCH. RE-ARRANGING THE CONTROL. LONDON, Nov. 29. The Government has transferred from the Army Council to the Ministry for Munitions the responsibility of testing arms and examining munitions and inventions. The Munitions Board now controls the Research Department at Woolwich, the Experimental Department at ShoeburynesS, and the War Office Inventions Branch.

CO-ORDINATING- THE FORCES,

OP THE ENTENTE POWERS

GENERAL STAFF WANTED

LONDON, November 28,

A Hungarian Parliamentarian informed the Morning Post’s' correspondent that the Hungarian losses were 100,000 per month. Unless the war was finished early next year. Austro-Hungary would be exhausted.

BY EGYPTIAN ARABS. (Reed 8 a.m.) CAIRO, November 29. Sherif el Senussi continues to maintain a friendly attitude towards the Government, but certain hostile agencies induced some western Arabs to commit minor acts of aggression against the frontier posts. We are, therefore, concentrating smaller frontier posts at Matruh. MONTENEGRIN’S KING’S PROCLAMATION. CETINJE, Nov. 29. King Nicholas’ proclamation exhorts his people to remain calm in the face of the danger threatening Montenegro. The Servians have been forced to withdraw to the Montenegrin mountains, where the forces of both kingdoms will fight valiantly from mountain to mountain. FIGHTING AT KOSSOVO. . COLOSSAL BULGARIAN LOSSES. LONDON, Nov. 29. The Servians are concentrating in the Kossovo region. ROME, Nov. 29.

The battle at Kossovo centimes. Fugitives affirm that 30,000 wounded have reached Sofia.

KING PETER’S ACTIVITY. LONDON, Nov. 20. King Peter, despite grave illness, insists on going into the fighting line! Several times he has declared that he will' die by his own hand. THE SERVIAN RAILWAYS. ALL TUNNELS DESTROYED. PARIS, Nov. 20. The Serbian Minister states that all the tunnels, of which there are many from Nish to the Bulgarian frontier, have been destroyed. The line cannot be repaired rapidly.

Tho Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent reports that the Entente Powers are beginning to realise the need for international grand general .stall. The organisation of the Entente is steadily tightening up, and it is felt that something more is required than irregular meetings to deal with pressing matters. It is believed that further conferences will be arranged. A scheme of permanent consultation is being considered, and councils will probably be held in Paris. It is considetod. that three representatives of each of the four Powers would be sufficient. The Foreign Offices of England and France wore never in more intimate communication, and the munitions departments had arrived at a perfect understanding. The miliary staffs were ■warning in perfect unison.

KITCHENER IN ITALY.

VISITS THE GORIZIA FRONT.

KITCHENER DECORATES CADORNA.

LEAVES, GOING HOMEWARD.

CIVILISATION IDEALS,

AND THE GERMAN CLOUD.

THE GLORIOUS BAND OF

LIBERTY.

S. AFRICA AND THE EMPIRE,

CAPETOWN, November 28,

WITNESSES THE BOMBARDMENT,

(Reed 8 a.m.) ROME, November 28. Kitchener and Cadorna visited the Isonzo front and witnessed the bombardment of Gorizia. Kitchener visited Headquarters and conferred British decorations on Cadoma, Victor Emmanuel decorated: Kitchener, who left, .going homewards. A TURKISH SUBMARINE. STOPS BRITISH STEAMER. “BE CALM, WE ARE }NOT MURDERERS. (Reed 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, .November 28. A Turkish submarine stopped the British steamer Burulos. After 25 were drowned, they assisted as many as 250 passengers who had jumped overboard. Mrs Egan, who has arrived

here states there was panic when the submarine was sighted, and passengers and crew, mostly Greeks, made for the boats. Three capsized and the submar;ne launched a collapsible boat, and an officer shouted, “Be calm, we are i not murderers.” After standing by for five hours assisting to rescue, the submarine disappeared. GERMAN AERIAL ATTACK. I / A FRENCH REPRISAL. (Reed. 10.5 a.m.) PARIS, November 29. A., communique states that four German aeroplanes bombed Verdun, with little damage. Five French aeroplanes, as a reprisal, dropped twenty bombs on the railway station at Brieulles, south of Stenay, and cut up the line, causing a train to hurriedly turn back. GERMANS IN THE CAMEROONS. BEING ENTIRELY SURROUNDED. A REMARKABLE FRENCH PEAT. LONDON, Nov. 28. The Press Bureau states that Dobell’s Franco-British forces are gradually drawing a ring round the Cameroon. The Allies have inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, whose centre of resistance is the high ground around Jaunde, while the Germans in the north Cameroons are now broken up into small parties, which Brigadier! C uni iff e is pursuing. The French ..approaching Jaunde have accomplished a remarkable feat in African warfare, by fighting their way across the German Cameroons from French equatorial Africa.

In the course of an address General Botha said that there was a tremendous cloud overhanging civilisation, and South Africans should bear their share in the struggle as being part of a white race, which was bleeding for the highest ideals of freedom. Government would do its duty to South Africa and the Empire.

The Hon. Henry Burton, K. C., said that events were leading to the creation of a fuller realisation of what the bond of Empire really meant. South Africa was indissolubly bound in its interests with the Empire, not bound in servile adhesion, but by a bond which stood for the glorious principle of libertv.