MACEDONIA FORCES ARE
SMALLER CHAN ENEMY’S
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(From G. WARD PRICK)
SALONICA, Dec. 25. — l doubt it
many people at home remember that
in the Balkans we are holding a front |
250 miles long (half u.> long as thej
French front in the west), anti that
this line is probably more difficult,
mile for mile, than that of any other
of the principal theatres of war. This
front is served solely by two main
roads ami two single track lines of
railway. All the other routes'of com
munication, including hu ml ret Is of
miles of road, of light railway, of
broad-guage sidings, bridges, and
causeways have had to be built by thej
Allied army, and built of imported
materials that were often desperately
slow in coming.
In addition to these works—which
have literally changed the face of
Southern Macedonia—the Allies lirst
built round Salome a an entrenched
camp which is one of the strongest in
the world, and then, moving onwards,
have occupied and fortified them
selves along the whole of their pres
ent front. Hero they have constant-1
i\ held up larger forces of the enem>
and they tirst arrested and then
gradually drove buck a determined
offensive against their Hank until
now, since the takng of Monastir, ii
is we n\ ho are invading the territory
that has been in occupation of the
enemy for over a year.
The astonishing thing to the ob
served on the >i>ot is that so much
has been done with the very moderate
strength that the Allies have allowed
for the campaign. There were times
lu.'t summer, while sickness was tak
ing its heavy toll of the Dulkan force,
when parts of the line, indeed, wen
held by no more than a phantom
army. The way in which the troops
were taken from the sector of the
front and sent under the greatest dif
fic.' ies of transport to reinforce an
other that seemed more threatened
was an admirable example of making
the most of inadequate resources.
Our strength has been too great to
be needed for the mere defence of
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Salonika aiul too little to undertake a
serious offensive beyond it. 1 say
this, of course, with no inspiration
and without authority other than my
own as an independent observer and
recorder of the campaign, but no one
can deny a fact so evident. \\ hat
over may have been the needs on the
other fronts that prevented reinforce
ments from being sent here, what
>
ever may have been the political and
diplomatic reasons that placed re
strictions upon those responsible tor
the conduct of the Balkan campaign,
the fundamental truth remains that
the forces here have up to this date
been compelled to adopt a semi-de
fensive role, for they have never had
nearly the number of men necessary
to undertake an operation on a log
scale in the difficult country and
against the numerous ami tenacious
troops in front of them.
The objects with which we came to
the Balkans over a year ago remain
yet to be achieved. Serbia has to be
reconquered. Connection has to he
cut between the Germanic Ktnpires
and the rich reservoir of men and
foodstuffs in Turkey on which they
have only begun to draw.
Tor the Allied force in the Balkan*
to have undertaken serious operations
with its effectives so much diminished
would certainly have exposed it to
failure.
:>o far the Allied offensive in th»
Balkans has been carried out —though
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it may sound unlikely, I know this as
a fact —by forces much inferior to
those of the enemy. Tn theory su
perior numbers are needed for at
tack, but all the advance in Western
Macedonia has been made with a
strength distinctly less than that of
the Bulgarians.—London Mail.
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tlx* newest placer excitement in the
Tanai a valley, the find made in what
is known as the Toklat country, which
is contiguous to the Kantishna coun
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prospects have been found there, al
though none of the prospectors have
reached bedrock. There are but very
few people there at the present time
as the district is a hard one to reach,
'flic scene of the new find, which was
first reported at Nenana by Fred
Houselman, who is said to have taken
$1,000 in gold out during the late fall,
is on Moose creek, which is about 125
miles from Nenana, according to the
two recently arrived prospectors. •
The shaft sunk by Iiouselmnn is (
reported to be about twenty-two feet
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shaft sunk by Gleason and Grant was
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