In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 12, 8 December 1916, Page 5

In the Balkans

REGENT SERBIAN SUCCESSES. TRUTH ABOUT THE OFFENSIVE. Press Association—Copyright, Austra lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9 a.m.) London, December 7. The Daily Telegraph’s Salonika correspondent states : We are pursuing our advantage north of Grunista, The Servians crossed the river at Grazeshnitza, and though the weather was most unfavourable the Servians did not cease active operations for a single day. After attacks extending for six days and nights, a final desperate' assault was carried out on the whole series of stionglj‘fortifiod heights, the Bulgars and Geimans flying in disorder, leaving seven guns arid many prisoners. The total number of guns captured is seventynine. Mr Ward Price, war correspondent, says: We must remember that tho Allies in the Balkans are holding a front of 250 miles long, which is more difficult than in any other theatre of war. The Allied offensive is being carried out with forces much inferior to the enemy.