CAPTURE OF FIORINA
BULGARIANS COMPLETELY SURPRISED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Sept. 20, 9.20 a.m.) ATHENS, Sept. 19. Oordonnier capured Fiorina,, secretly preparing <for three days a hundred motor cars which were nightly bringing fcroopts to concentration points, com,pQetely the eniemy, despite innumerable spies. The attack quickly drove ani the Bulgarian resistance, light artillery following, creaing disorder, while the night p.uirsuit with the utmost speed, prevented the Bulgarians from digging in anywhere, the flight degenerating into a rout. The pro-Bulgarian and Turkish population fled with the troops inci'easing the terrible coniiusilon. Bejadfofu is resultilessly adopting the G-eilma.n trick of firing cannon at the fugitives. Fiorina is undamagedBulgarian prisoners complain of the German ofh'cere bratialatv. "
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Nelson Evening Mail, 20 September 1916, Page 5
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