Dec an bur jo, 1915. 
LAND AND W A T £ R. 
THE THREAT TO SALONIKA. 
By HILAIRE BELLOC. 
NOTE.— This Article has been submitted to the Press Bureau, which does not object to the publication as censored, and takes no 
cesponsibility for the correctness of the statements. 
In acjjrJans:; wlt'i the require.nents of the Press Bjreiu, the positions of troops on Plans illustratin;$ th's Article must only be 
s-egardci as apprjximjte, and no definite strength at any point is indicated. 
IF we take as the best evidence available the 
reports of the enemy's nio\'enients in Mace- 
donia (though they are as yet little better 
than rumours) we obtain some such scheme 
as the following for his preparations against 
Salonika. 
There are said to be three columns preparing 
to converge iipon that now fortified position. One 
(which is said to be mainly Turkish in com])osition) 
stands at the head of the Valley of the Struma with 
its rail head on the Kustendil railway. This is 
that upon both the composition of winch and its 
numbers, tl">re is most speculation and least know- 
ledge. 
• Upon the second or central column there is 
much more known because air reconnaissance 
undertaken by the Alhes has provided considerable 
information. It would seem to be massed upon 
the Vardar Railway just north of the Greek 
frontier, west of Lake Doiran. It is certainly 
mainly Bulgarian in composition, and it is certainly 
much the strongest of the three columns in ques' 
tion. 
The third column would seem to be designed 
for an advance upon Salonika from the west by way 
of Monastir and the main road and railway through 
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