THE WAR IN THE BALKANS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1918, Page 3

THE WAR IN THE BALKANS.

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SERBIAN ADVANCE, LONDON, October 24. After heavy fighting, the Serbians carried Bukovineck Massif, north-east of Alexinatz. The Allied forces have reached the Bor Mines, northwest of Zaitchar.

DECISIVE SERBIAN VICTORY. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, Oct. 25. The Serbians decisively defeated the

Austro-Germans in Morava Valley. MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN. WHAT THE SERBIANS SUFFERED IN A BULGARIAN COMPOUND (Received This Dav. at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 25. Mr Ward Price says the Serbian prisoners in the war camps on the outskirts of Sofia present terrible evidence of the hatred between Bulgaria and Serbia. On the main road to Radomir is a muddy compound three acres in extent, surrounded' hv barbed wire. In this pen are 103,000 Serbians of all ages with few Greeks, Russians, and French. The latter lodge in a few whitewashed mud huts. The Serbians have lain in the open all day and night, winter and summer for three years. I They had no blankets no protection of any kind. They packed their wretched bodies together at night like a herd of animals. Their food was a pound of black bread daily. The soup was cauldron hot water with a dozen maize pods. (Received This Day at 10.35. a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 25.

Mr Ward Price continuing the storv of the Serbian prisoners experiences under their B-ulgar captors, says ten Serbians died {luring a night and tho Bulgurs put the bodies in a cart an hour later. The cart returned afterwards with the day’s bread ration. The Serbians never saw a Bulgarian doctor. Mr. Ward Price says tho Serbians on their part fed any Bulgarian prisoners as well as the Allied trops. This terrible scandal lies at the very door of the Bulgarian Government.