Latest Cables

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 November 1915, Page 3

Latest Cables

Received Ths Day 10 a.in

BALKAN HORRORS. Berne, Nov. i. An Austio-German correspondent adiniiu tlniL non-comua units suffered iviriijiitioH owing tu alleged firing upon the Austro-Geniuin troops. Refugees reaching Uie Slavonic- Association in .Switzerland state that there 'was awtu. MiU-hery in tho villages, and the i-uii-vain horrors were numerously lepoated. R,d ugees deny that the villagers, who mostly were old, lired on the Germans. The}- attribute the .slaughter to German anger. The Serbian troops showed desperate resistance. MORE TTR"O'cniE.S. Pans, -Nov. -1. , ':e Petit Parisian's Salonika cones poiident reports that the Serbians' impetuous counter-attack threw back the Bulgarians in the defiles between Velefc and Perlepe. Bulgarians in the north-eastern frontier gouged out the eyes and i"'e out the tongues of Serbian prisoners and then Teleasod them. Women andi children were infamously treated. Some wore shockingly mutilated. BULGARIAN CASUALTIES. Geneva, Nov. 4. Tho Tribune's Bucharest correspondent telegraphs that the Bulgarian'casualties on the southern frontier since October 29th number 30,000. h::hting at various points. Tiie Lokak Anzeige says that the Bulgarians bombarded the northern and north-eastern exterior of Nish, and destroyed the wireless station. The Serbians in fighting round Pirot asandoned provisions and waggons. An American munition factory at Pirot was destroyed by the" Serbians before tho evacuation, and the arsenal at Kragiv jevatz Tva-s similarly lirod. A Bulgarian communique reports the capture of COO prisoners and four guns southward] of Strumitza. Renter's • Salonika representative says that the FrencTT are strongly entrencned on tho heights of a mountainous front at Rabrovo-Uradno-Thomirk-apa. and are holding the Bulgarians at a distance. Tho first British contingent reaohed Griebgheli on October 29.