Servia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 6 April 1915, Page 5

Servia.

ATTACK BY BULGARIAN BANDS. ) United Pbebs Association. Nish, April 4. A Bulgarian band, 300 strong, attacked the railway at Strumitza. Sixt;v Serbians were killed and many wounded. A Serbian regiment was,sent to reinforce the frontier guards and threw back the raiders to Bulgarian territory. Eighty Bulgarian dead were left' on the field. MASSACRES OF OLD AND YOUNG Salonika, April 5. Five hundred irregulars assailed Serbia, using machine guns, and retreated through Valondova, which \yts burned. They failed to destroy the bridges. across the Vardar, but burned several villages and massacred aged people and children and mutilated and incinerated several Serbian soldiers. Finally the Serbians, by concentrating, routed the invaders, who compelled many villagers with goods and cattle to enter Bulgaria. WHAT IS THE MEANINC OF TH? RAIDS? Athens, April 5. The raids are interpreted as an effort to induce Serbia to give Bulgaria some definite declaration. A bomb was thrown on the Greek Legation at Sofia, but did not explode. CREEK FRONTIER THREATENED. London, April 5. Bulgarian irregulars were repulsed while attempting to cross the Creek frontier. Many were killed and wounded. Other bands are threatening Dorian.

The Times, in a leader, commenting on the previous raid on Servian territory, says: "It. is not suggested that the Bulgarian Administration prompted so flagrant an attack on pur ally, but it is encumbent on her to make it abundantly clear that she does not condone such a piece of lawlessness: The raid came too soon after General von dor Goltz's visit to Sofia to seem altogether fortuitous." ' . A PRUSSIAN FINGER IN THE PIE Rome, April 4. A member of the Bulgarian Legation declares that the Serbo-Bulgarian incident was devoid of importance, and merely local. He adds that the rela- ' tions between the two Governments are excellent.

The Serbian Minister, interviewed, said he believed that Germany instigated the Bulgarian band's attack.