AN ACCOUNT OF SALONIKA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 72, 18 November 1912, Page 5

AN ACCOUNT OF SALONIKA.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright., (United Press Association.) London, November 16. ‘The Times’ ’ correspondent, who witnessed the descent upon Salonika, gives a vivid description cf the demoralisation. The infantry fired at landom, and the Krupp shells often failed to burst. The Redifs threw away their rifles, pleading that for days they had been without food or ammunition. They said: “When the officers ran, we ran.” In many instances entire divisions of Redifs bolted from the battlefields. Fie saw ten thousand men massed at the second line of defence cn the river Gallico, near Salonika. Infantry, cavalry, and artillery were jumbled together. They had no bread and no water, and were exposed’ to a biting wind. Similarly at headquarters fifteen thousand defenders were entrenched on the exposed eastern banks of the Vardor. They were unfit to fight, spiritless and deserting in droves Officers brandishing revolvers _ and whips were unable to keep them in the ranks.