THE BALKANS.
A BFULLANT AOVANiCL,
BRITISH INFANTRY IN ACHON. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Service.) LONDON, October 3. ! Mr Ward Price, writing from Salonica on Saturday, 'state*'that tho • British crossed tho Struma with a " strong force, their immediate objectivea being the twin villages of Karadjabala and Karadjazir. ■ The first was surprised DJid captured in two hours with few caauaJtiee. Tho other required a furious aHeivuJt, and our success was followed by a series of desperate counter-attacks. 'We took ' prisoner 300 men and killed auci woundl-* : ed 2000.
Die British troops went into action carrying 220 .rounds of ammunition, and two days' rations, an w«ll as a pick and shovel. The most, difficult task was to' cross a mile cl. shellpounded country between Baia at»d;Zir, ■ which was enfiladed from both sides. The machine-guns in the Bulgarian trenches were fired desperately until the attackers were upon them.., Then the Bulgarians flung down their rifles, ' .scrambled over- the parapets, and met the attackers with raised hands.
, The British troops . dashed trough,> the •, burning villages, and iwiße<l .• trenches beyond where they'beat ~' off "^ counter-attacks'" for two days.' . -t
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3572, 5 October 1916, Page 5
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182THE BALKANS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3572, 5 October 1916, Page 5
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