GERMAN ESCAPEES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3183, 6 September 1917, Page 5

GERMAN ESCAPEES

SIX PRISONERS OF WAR PICKED UP AT SEA. London, September +. A ship which has arrived in the Tyne picked up six German prisoners of war in a boat at sea. It is believed that the Germans wero among those who recently escaped from camps in Britain. A email boat recently disappeared from Scarborough, and tho incident is believed to bo connected with the attempted soape.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.

AN OFFENSIVE IN THE BALKANS DIVERSION TO PIN THE BULGARS TO THEIR OWN FRONT AND RELIEVE PRESSURE IN MOLDAVIA Paris, September 4. i Tlio "Petit Parisien" Fays the Allies have initiated an energetic offensive- in Macedonia with the vie\7 of preventing ' the Bulgarians reinforcing the Buniantan front. The plan is tins to Tβlieve the Allies in Moldavia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BULGARIA REFUSETTO HELP AUSTRIA Berne, September 4. The Bulgarians havo refused to eend Austria reinforcemeiits. Relations are strained, and there are disagreement* concerning Serbia, where there have been open conflicts between the Austrian and Bulgarian tropps.—Aus.-N.JS. Cable Assn. BULGARIAN REPORT. (Bee. September 5, 7.50 p.m.) ' London, Sfiptenfber iA Bulgarian official communique states: "A very violent enemy bombardment occurred ou the Macedonian, front on September 2. At dawn yesterday the French attacked at Tehervena', Stena, ; and west of Bitolia. Our curtain of fire . repulsed the attack."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable i Assn.-Keuter.