THE BULGARS AND THE SERBS.
•MURDEROUS' FIGHTING.
GROUND COVERED WITH I CORPSES. , i
/Jfho Times Service.) Ottt: «1. •MrGalvert witnessed the attfem.pt 'to rGoaptrii^b Ivaymakchatan. Itte •fommaTider •daii'mib use artiflery. *8.0. atta<ikted"-at 'toight with, txmp^vwdl i|iiimed with ra.w spirits. With an impetuous rush !thoy carried £he -first line ■< and wipeol out the •octfapoij.ts.. 'yriie' leinainiitg Serbians teeM^nrm ,ana 'mowed down the intoxicated Bttlgars. ' Tiie first wave r&iched f(% < trenches. 4ftei tlu-ee hours of nwe^t^horrible flighting the trenches wsto itairen, the •"iSH-bs finally winning. Sunrise revealed a- soeJie '-Qf bestial, • fehvac© slauglitei-. 'Fb© .ground bethe first aoiii «eo©nd-lmes was 'covered A\-ith corpses.- It was nn■'aossibld to step' witteuitHcifmpling^ "Hum. One thouMmfl 'Swbs and 2000 " Bulgars were kilted-or .wounded, lhe Kerb officers ver© -niassiM^ed,
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Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 225, 3 October 1916, Page 5
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