THE BALKANS.
ENEMY CONSULS. TO BE RELEASED. Athens, January 7. The newspapers are gratified at the Allies' announcement that they will release the enemy Consuls. They eonBider the incident closed. RUSSIA'S OFFENSIVE.
AX ENEMY OPINION. Received Jan. 0, 5.5 p.m. ■ Amsterdam, Jan. S. Count Reventlow, writing in the 'Pages Zeitung, says that the Russian offensive in "Bessarabia lias been well prepared. She has great reserves of men and artillery, and if the offensive succeeds Creeee and Roumania will join the Entente. ATTACK ON SALONIKA. ' ENEMY PLANS COMPLETED. Received Jan. 9, 5.3 p.m. Athens, Jan. 8. Austria, Germany, and Bulgaria hav« completed plans for an immediate attack towards Salonika. There are conflicting reports whether the Turks will participate. LINKING UP THE RAILWAYS. WORK OF THE GERMANS. THE ENEMY NIBBLING. Received Jan. !l, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. S. Mr. Jefferies, the Daily Mail's Athens correspondent, says that Bulgarian cooperation with the Germans in Macedonia is less hearty, and while the Turks have reoeeupied ostensibly strategical positions, they have ceded portions around the Dedeagatch-Adrianople railwav.
The Germans meanwhile are "busy with steady through railway traffic between Constantinople and Berlin. They are purchasing the entire Adana cotton crop and half of the previous crop, and are working the great Arghana copper mine, near Diabckir. As two years are required to complete the tunnel through the Taurus range at the Cilician gate, near Boyanti, on the Bagdad railway, the Germans have made parallel roads and are employing the largest motor lorries, travelling from Boyanti to Dorak in three hours.
The line is now finished to Marmores, a distance of one hundred miles, whence there is a light railway to Bagtehe. Thousands of natives, under engineers who have been withdrawn from the first line of armies; are energetically completing, by the spring, the BagteheRadja section, and there will be then continuous communication between Aleppo and Constantinople, includingthe CilieTan motor-car link.
There is much uncertainty whether, in view of the danger of. certain railway bridges being dynamited, and the prospect of a great offensive from Salonika, the Germans would risk sending to Asia the large forces necessary to give them victory there.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1916, Page 5
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