IN KRESNA PASS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1819, 4 August 1913, Page 5

IN KRESNA PASS.

A SANGUINARY BATTLE. FRIGHTFUL SLAUGHTER, London, August 1. Tho "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent states that Sunday's battle at Kresna Pass wa3 really a series of struggles for possession of isolated mountain peaks. At one spot two opposing companies ran short of ammunition, and bombarded each' other with stones, a distanco of fifteen yards across a narrow gujly until the Greep lapidarians worsted the Bulgarians. Suddenly, at 5 o'clock, the Bulgarian tugles sounded, and disclosed a great line of fresh troops, numbering twelve thousand, making a bayonet, attack. It was a crucial test for tho moralo of tho Greeks, but .they remained steady, pumping magazino after magazine into the charging Bulgarians. Whole sections of Bulgarians were swept away, but other sections charged on. Dozens of bloody bayonet combats resulted in tho weary, unwatered, and unfed Greek lino being driven back. Thousands of infantrymen in reservd enabled the Greek centre to reform. , Tho armies exchanged bullets on tho mountain, slopes at one hundred yards range. Further Greek reinforcements, with machine guns, enfiladed tho Bulgarians' right. Everywhere the Bulgar lino broke, but the Greeks were too weary to pursuo them, and lay down and slept. Tho Sixth Division- alone lost 1300 men out of 10,000. Tlio total Greek loss was 2500, the Bulgarians probably lost GOOO. Several Greeks captured on Sunday were 'f6iuul with their eyes gouged out and ears and noses cut off. One man so treated is* still alive.