In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 55, 3 November 1915, Page 5

In the Balkans

ANGLO-FRENCH TROOPS OFF KAVALLA AND SALONIKA. United Press Association. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Amsterdam, November 2. The Tageblatt states:. Anglo-French transports laden with troops have appeared off Kavalla and Salonika. BURGARIANS REPULSED. FRENCH INFLICT ENORMOUS LOSSES. ATTACKS ON WHOLE FRONT FAIL MISERABLY. (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, November 2. When the Bulgarians attacked Krivolak, the Bulgarians \\oaw caught obliquely with gunfire. They were also subjected to a furious bayonet charge and thrown on to the right bank of the Vardar, which was swollen with rains. Many were drowned. An extremely violent Bulgarian attack at Strumnitza was easily repulsed, thanks to the superiority of the French positions. The French casualties numbered 1000, and the enemy's were enormous. Bulgarian attacks along the whole French front failed miserably.

150,000 GERMANS IN SERBIA.... p j TURKS QUESTION GERMAN AIMS.' United Press Association. | (Received 11.35 a.m.) j London, November 2. j Renter states that information from an authoritative source has shown that Germany has only one hundred and fifty thousand troops against Serbia. The publicity given to the German j aims has had a disquieting effect in Turkish official quarters, owing to uu-' easiness as to the possibility of Ger-i man preponderance at Constantinople. RUSSIANS IN OCCUPATION OF VARNA. OnIIBD t"RKM IAMOOUTTOIi Bucharest, November 2. It is reported in official naval quarters that the Russians have landed at Varna. Refugees from Varna state that the bombardment damaged the Armenian and Greek quarters and the barracks, the marine arsenal and the naval docks. Shells also damaged a wing of King Ferdinand's chateau.'