In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 8, 13 December 1915, Page 6

In the Balkans

■ ULCARIAN COMMUNIQUE. "OUR LOMES INSIGNIFICANT!" .AitlW Rt*R£AT OONTINUfjS.

(Beceiv«d-noon.) Ixmdou, December 12. A Bulgarian communique states:— The- though desperately .resisting, are hastily, evacuating ■•..:' portions under strong pressure., "We are pursuing on lieth banks of the Vfidar, , W« have.-.arrived southward' station! at .Miroyos,: and .are advancing southward' of Kosfcuains,''an jHudovo, was; General Sarfail's headquarters.' The'French burnt theWe captured much Freheh material .: and five 5 'machinai. guns and feaiy Our bosses v were insignia 4»|»t, while the enemy's were enor-j moW Tse enemy took with them in; tfiiifeat the entire population. j

Amsterdam, December 11. •'We have expelled the French from Gradetss, - throwing them into great disorder, after hand-to-hand fighting, and capturing njany prisoners, and ten. British guns near PletoA'o. The An- * glo-French casualties southward of the Rabrovo and' Valahdovo line were ex-

tinemejry heavy. THE ALLIES' TASK. London, December 11. The. war correspondent, Mr Ml Donohoe, cabling from Athens on the evening of the $tK says that,the Allies continue to retreat in good orderi A'quantify of artillery is ..already in Grfefc territory, and -wounded in large numbers are arriving at the frontier

station of Ghevgeli. The fighting is of, a most severe nature, the Allies repulsing furious attacks. The French /reafguard heavily engaged th e attackers, including German cavalry.; Heavy German" concentration is reported to be in progress at TJskub and PhilipbpoHs. Salonika, December 11. It is reported that General von Gallwitz with Germans occupied Ghevgeli on the* morning of the 10th. CENERAL SARRAILS REPORT. Paris. December 11. General Sarrail's lajtest communique ' states that the retreat on the Cerna front was methodieally effected without great loss, though the attackers w«re heavily punished on the Bth and 9th, just. The French wow occupy a front along the course of the Bojimia. Other telegrams estimate that ■ 150,000 Anglo-French are facing 250,000 BiUga£s and 150,000 Germans.. At least 250,000 men are required to fortify Salonika, the geographical makes defence difficult, a,pa'rt from the danger from the Greek army, which is entrenched on a hill commanding the town.