4 MARCH 1916, Page 2

In the other theatres of the war there is little

to report except one or two interesting items of news from the Near East and the Middle East. For example, it is said that reinforcements for the Allies are constantly pouring into Salonika. We are glad to hear it, for we believe that Salonika will yet play a very important political part, and conceivably an important military part, in tho war. Meanwhile the Germans do not attack. In Persia the Russians have made a very satisfactory advance and have taken Kermanshah, only two hundred and twenty miles from Baghdad.