BULGAR-GERMAN OFFENSIVE CRUSHED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2884, 23 September 1916, Page 9

BULGAR-GERMAN OFFENSIVE CRUSHED

And, the last state of Greece shall he.worse than the first—chaos . ' reigns at Athens, the Government- as a political force and administrative authority is practically non est. King Constantino has mounted machine-guns at.the Palace, and .the revolution is spreading. . The ' Cretans are reported to have thro wn off the Grecian yoke and are sending ■ a revolutionary committee to Salonika. With regard to the ■ military campaigns in the Balkans, there are. to-day no. major de- - velopments to" report. The Bulgars have suffered, a,sharp reverse.on. : the Serbian iront;-the'Rumanians have established ah ascendancy in .'; 'Tarnsylvania,'while the German-Bulgar offensive .in.the Dqbruja. ap- ■'.' pears .to have wilted. Routine operations.are reported from the Rus-. sian and Italian fronts; a correspondent gives an interesting glimpse of the progress of the Russian General, Tcherßachoff, 'in Galicia, 'where, in most'difficult country, he is slowly forging ahead. There has been:another attack on.the New Zeajanders on the Somme, in - which the Germans suffered severely;. Lurid stories are. told of' the awful carnage in the enemy's masses during his big "counter-attack on the French front. A late message brings good news from the Dobruja, where ■ the Russo-Rumanian army,- after fighting a furious battle with the' Bul-gar-German forces, crushed.the enemy's, resistance, and compelled him to withdraw. .