In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 19, 28 December 1915, Page 5

In the Balkans

BULGARIAN PREMIER’S STATEMENT. MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN ENDED. United Press association. (Received 1 p.m.) Athens, December 27. Bulgarian newspapers state that Radlosavoff (Premier) declared that I the campaign in Macedonia is ended. I Bulgaria will conserve the position on tlie nhtfs Greco-Bulgarian frontier.

THE SUEZ EXPEDITION. United Press Association. Paris December 27. Reports via Geneva confirm the seriousness of Germany’s preparations for an expedition to the Suez Canal. Much lolling stock and railway material is assembling at Rustchuk for despatch to Syria, where the Turkish army, with German officers as instructors, and heavy artillery are massing. The Echo de Paris says that the Germans have established at Nish a' provisional Government, wherefrom Bulgarians are excluded. The whole attitude of the Germans shows' that if is decided to transform Serbia into a German dependency. There is the greatest discontent among the Bulgarians, who ore beginning to perceive they are only pulling out the chestnuts from the fire lor the Kaiser.

REPORTS FROM ATHENS. ENEMY ADVANCE DELAYED. Athens, December 27; Some newspapers anticipate that the Gerraan-Bulgarian advance has been delayed for a fortnight, and that the possible deplay indicates the abandonment of an advance in favor of digging in and prosecuting the Egyptian campaign. Other reports state that, Bulgaria has lost 120,000 out of 480,000 mobilised ,and refuses to attack Greece now unless Germany assures Bulgaria possession of all the territory occupied. Otherwise Bulgaria will dig in on the Greek frontier and continue ou‘ the defensive. t . ;v . Forty carloads of German uniforms have arrived in southern ,Bulgaria, with which it is believed it is intended to disguise the Bulgarian contingents, who will be used in the advance on Salonika, but it is more than probabje that the rjeports are merely German bluff, o I '' ii! 1 «•* 1 '

ft Austro-Germans. from Monastir, Turks' from Nevrokop, and Bulgars from Lake Doiran, are from Lake Doiran, are preparing for a simultaneous attack.

BULGARIA.VERY WARLIKE.

, i;Mr Calvert, reporting from Salon--ika, says that there is great activity, and important movements Jjmong thetroops are observable in the Bulgarian lines between Doiran and Ghevgeli. The enemy are 'positions, in View of the great Austro-Ger-man losses in the negrin campaign, the diminution in strength having e|it|ilW Inlich. fetri'isoning in the Balkans. *ll is believed that the army which is being launched against Salonika is almost entirely Bulgarian, with perhaps some Turkish auxiliaries. The'Bulgarians are so elated at their triumphs in Serbia and by their seeming victories against the Allies (which have been magnified into a rout, even in Germany) that they may be unable to restrain their martial ardor. The Bulgarian programme includes the annexation of the whole of southern Macedonia. The Sofia-press truculently states that other nations may pause half-way, but not so Bulgaria. V : u "

SERBIAN CROWN PRINCE’S REPORT. 1 * Rome, December 27. The Serbian Crown Prince, interviewed, stated that the retreat of tho Serbians was accomplished under the most favorable conditions. They took their guns and the army is now spread in the Albanian mountains from Scutari to Sangionanni, and fjtom Duj-a/--/o to Dyana. The cavalry at Sciak ‘are watching the roads, while the Macedonian army is marching to join the Italians at Valona. The Bulgarians and Serbians are fighting east of El Basan. The temper of the Serbians is excellent. They suffered from a scarcity of provisions, but help is beginning to arrive. Engineers are beginning to construct roads across Albania, and the Serbian and Italian generals held a conference and decided on joint action.