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Excerpt from The Times History of the War, Vol. 12 On January 16, 1916, General Sarrail was invested with the supreme command of the Allied armies in Macedonia. (till then the British contingent, under General Sir Bryan Mahon, had been independent of General Sarrail and subject only to the orders of the cornmandcr-in-chief of the British Mediter rausan Expeditionary F owe General Sir C. C. Monro, till January 9, when he was suc ceeded by Sir Archibald Murray). On January 28 French troops suddenly appeared before the fortress of Kara Burun, the black headland which from the se. Commands the entrance to the inner Gulf of Salonika. Fortunately, the Greek o 'icer in charge gave up the fort without any incident occurring. Greek feeling was, however, somewhat excited by the French General's summary methods, and the chief anti-venizelist newspaper of Athens, Embros, accused the French troops of taking Kara Burun at the point of the bayonet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."