IN THE BALKANS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2651, 23 December 1915, Page 5

IN THE BALKANS

EVACUATION OF GHEV6HELI ; BULBARS CHARGE EMPTY TRENCHES. fi7 TalegraDh—Press Assocfatfon-OopjTlfht ( Timoß" and Sydney'"Sun" Services.) London, December 21. Describing the evacuation of Ghevgheli, a correspondent states that it was attended with difficulties owing to the. accumulation of Serbian stores and persistent enemy attacks for ten days. A dense fog assisted the enemy, causing the isolation of a British brigade, which was given up as lost, but eventually; regained the main body. The Bulgars furiously attacked two small bridgeheads and an entrenched hill covering the retreats of the last of tho French troops. They poured in a stream of shells for two hours and then ckargedi up the hill with, tie bayonet, but were disgusted to find nothing but empty trenches. VARNA BOMBARDED. BY RUSSIAN WARSHIPS. London, December 31. The News Exchange correspondent at' Athens says that Russian, warships, e&« cortiug sixteen transports, have bombarded the Bulgarian port/ of Varna, ig the Black Sea. POURING iSfoSALONIKA , TKOOPS AND MUNITIONS (Eec. December 22, 11.35 p.m.) Athens; December 21. Entente troops and munitions afei pouring into Salonika, but it will require several months to brine in what is considered necessary for tie oifensive.