ANTI-DYNASTIC PLOT

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 23 October 1915, Page 5

ANTI-DYNASTIC PLOT

DISCOVERED IN BULGARIA POLITICAL LEADERS' HOUSES SEARCHED 1 ! i I A BULGARIAN REVOLT EXPECTED I ' I -""* * OFFER NOT YET ACCEPTED i j. ; . ' HASTENING ON IN GALIGIA

THE BALKANS.

GREAT SERVIAN VICTORY. AUSTRIAN* DEFLATED. MANY PRISONER* CAPTURED. PARIS, October 21. The Servians counter-attacked and defeated the Austrians south-westward of Belgrade, inflicting terrible losses and capturing many prisoners and machine-guns.

VRANJA STILL UNCAPTU&ED!

PARIS, October 21. The Bulgarians have not occupied Vranja, but hold the railway to the north of that town. A great battle continues.

BULGARIANS ANNIHILATED.

PARIS, October 21. The French first encountered the Bulgarians at Valandovo. The Bulgarians bombarded vigorously, but the French energetically resisted. The Franco-Servians then took the offensive, annihilating several Bulgarian battalions.

BULGARIANS CUT RAILWAY,

NISII, October 2.1

A communique which has been delayed admits that the Bulgarians, after sanguinary fighting at Ylasina on Sunday, cut the railway northward of YTtinja. Later advices state that a great battle is proceeding, but has not yet readied a decision.

French troops are rapidly advancing from Ghevgeli towards Yranja.

CIVILIANS SACRIFICED

PARIS. October 2]

The Petit Parisien's Athens correspondent states that the Bulgarian invaders of Servia are massacring eivilans, burning towns and villages, and mutilating wounded prisoners.

BLOCKADE OF BULGARIAN COAST

A REVOLT EXPECTED

ROME, October 21

Mr. Martin Donohue says that the Eussian Consul at Dedeagateh. who has arrived at Bucharest, confirms the news of the Allies' blockade of the Bulgarian Aegean coast. The enemy Is feverishly fortifying the littoral. He considers that the appearance of Russian troops in Bulgaria would be the signal for a general'revolt, of the army and people against King Ferdinand.

GERMAN DEVILRY.

BUCHAREST, Oct. 21

The Servian Minister has protested to the American Minister against the German excesses in Belgrade, where the male population has been exterminated, while the. women have been subjected to the most frightful violence. SOFIA PREPARING FOR SIEGE. ROUMANIAN ATTACK FEARED. BUCHAREST, Oct. 21. Reports from Sofia state that th" city lias been put into a state of defence to resist a siege. The neighbouring ehain of hills has been covered with a network of trenches and barbed wire, the defences having been constructed by German engineers. There has been a rapid eoneentratioon of Bulgarians or. the Black Per, coast, 'close to the Rourar.nian frontier.

ANTIDYNASTIC PLOT.

DISCOVERED IN BULGARIA. (Reed 10 a.m.) LONDON, October 22 An antidynastic plot in Bulgaria has been discovered. The houses of Opposition leaders and numerous other politicals have been searched. SERIOUS BULGARIAN REVERSE. LONDON, October 22. The Daily Mail's correspondent a 1 Salonika states that after the occupation of Tshtip the Bulgarians advanced on Kuprili, and repulsed the Bulgarians, with enormous losses. The French crossed the Vardar at Krivolak with the object of cutting ofi' the Bulgarian retreat. Bulgarian attacks on Kumanovo were repulsed. The Ooraitadjis anc cavalry who cut the railway near Vrania, were exterminated.

MORE OFFERS TO GREECE

THE ALLIES' LAST WORD. In addition to Cyprus, the Allies have offered Greece an extension of territory on the Aegean coast of. Greece and colonies in Asia Minor. These represent the Entente's last word. The Greek Government is also assured of military and adequate financial support. ATHENS, October 22. The Entente Ministers have had frequent interviews with M. Zaimis in a final effort to convince Greece that it

is necessary to assist Servia in return for Bulgaria's exclusion from the Aegean Sea.

THE CYPRUS OFFER.

HAS GREECE REJECTED IT?

LONDON, October 22

The "Times" states that it is'understood in well-informed circles that Greece has rejected the Cyprus proposal.

BULGARS ANNOYED,

LONDON, October 22

Sofia newspapers furiously comment on the Salonika landing. They state that they will not tolerate the concentration of troops. If Greece is powerless to turn out the Anglo-French she must call in Bulgaria, who will undertake the operations.

BULGARIANS CLAIM SUCCESS.

ALLEGED BIG CAPTURES

PARIS, October 21

A Bulgarian communique claims thv capture, of important, strategical positions at Sultan Tepeh, on the Stratzin front; also the capture of 2,000 Servians and 12 guns with ammunition waggons.

TERRIFIC FIGHTING IN SERVIA

VIOLENT ONSLAUGHTS

ENORMOUS GERMAN LOSSES

BUCHAREST, October 22

The Serbians made a splendid counter attack southward of Pojarevatz _, .:id inflicted on the enemy 8000 casualties. The Germans fell back near Senn-m----dria, before the violent Serbian onslaughts. German divisions southward of Belgrade, marching towards Leskovatz, were caught on the flank by Serbian artillery, losing one third of their effectives. The Austro-Gerraan advance, levertheless, continues.

THE DARDANELLES

VON SANDERS CAN HOLD

HAS SUPERIOR FORCE. NEW YORK. Oct. 22. The Constantinople correspondent »>E the Associated Press visited the Turkish lines and estimates that 115.000 Britishers in the Anafarta region are opposed by 3.10.000 Turks, with 80,000 effectives in reserve. The Turks hold every advantage in terrain. Von Sanders suys: "I am too old to be an optimist, but I am confident that unless something extraordinary occurs we can hold the Allies where they are.'' The Turks estimated that the Allies losi- 12,000 killed and 25,000 Trounded in the assanlts at Anafarta between August 20th and 27th.

SEVERE TU-IIISH LOSSES.

ATHENS. Oct. 22. The Allies yesterday repulsed the Turkish attacks at Buvla and Krithia. inflicting severe losses.

GERMANY'S, CROWNING INFAMY.! LONDON, October 22 The newspapers publish completedocument on the martyrdom of Nurse Cavell. Leading articles denounce it as Germany's crowning infamy . The Daily Graphic characterises it as the mest damnable crime in the war. WHAT BRITAIN MUST DO. NO HALF MEASURES. LONDON. October 22. The Manchester Guardian demands no half-measures in Macedonia. At least a quarter of a million men are ' wanted within a fortnght. Thus we will both save Servla and retain our hold on Gallipoli.

THE MURDER OF NURSE CAVELL.

BLOODSTAINED LOOS.

GERMANS ADVANCE EN MASSE. BRITISH GUNS WIPE THEM OCT. LONDON, October 20. Mr. Phillip Gibbs, the war correspondent, was an eye-witness of the repulse of the counter-attack at l.oos on the Bth hist. The Germans had for (lays brought up reserves of men and guns. Our troops, crouching in the old Gorman trenches, stood the ordeal of too concentrated bombardment. The trenches were strewn with shrapnel and were black as a coal-box. Shells flung up the earth in all directions, vet the casualties were comparatively slight. Finally the Germans, in the mid- . die of the afternoon, opened a violent rifle and machine-gun lire. The fifty yards between the opposing trenches were filled with poison gases and smokeballs. Then, through the dense curtain loomed a line of grey figures. The advancing Germans came on swiftly, four deep and shoulder to shoulder. The British rifles and machine-guns i were ready and plunged streams of lead i into the shadow figures. Numbers fell and others tried to crawl back into the trenches. We concentrated our iire upon the groups and few escaped. Meanwhile enemy aeroplanes had directed the curtain of fire to prevent our supports coming up. The task of 'ho British infantry however, was finished and they had onJy to watch the heaps of German dead in the smoke, whence a few survivors now and then wriggled back to their own line. The German attack was not only repulsed, but shattered.

GERMANY PROTESTS

AGAINST NETTING SUBMARINES. TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT. ON THE WESTERN FRONT. (Reed 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, October 22. The newspaper "Liberte" reports that a German protest against the netting of submarines has reached the iltalian Government from a, neutral I source. Germany also protested i against sending out large vessels to sink submarines. A communique states that German bombardment continues very violently westward of Tahure, eastward of Butte, Mesnil, and in the Ville Sur Tourbe district. We everywhere repulsed the enemy by repressive fire, which was clearly very effective against their batteries and trenefnes. The explosion of a French mine in the Argonne destroyed an enemy post.

SIR lAN" HAMILTON.

ARRIVAL AT MARSEILLES. PARIS.. October 22. Sir lan Hamilton and staff have arrived at aboard the cruiser Chatham, LONDON, October 21. The Central News states that General Sir lan Hamilton has arrived in Rome. He visited Count Sonino.

EABTEEN BATTLEFIELD

A RUSSIAN VICTORY.

7,500 MEW CAPTURED. HOWITZERS AND MACHINE GUNS. (Reed 10 a.m.) PETROG-RAD, October 22. A communique states that our surprise attacks carried part of the enemy's positions in the Novo Alcxinetz district, northward of Tarnopol, also eastward of Lcpuschno, ot the north of Novo Alexinetz. We captured during the day l'.'<i officers, 7,500 men, two howitzers and a number of machine guns. RIGA IN DANGER. GERMANS 12 MILES OFF. J HEAVY FIGHTING PROCEEDING.! fUce. 12..1 a.m.) I'ETROORAD. Oct. 22. The latest telegrams that ' Germsn reinforcements are endanger-' tag Riga. They have reached Olac. 12 miles from Riga. Heavy fighting is proceeding' on the plateau of Olai, dominating the marshy plains on both sides of the Mitan-Riga railway. The path of the German advance is ham.- j pored by thick woods and intersected with swampy streams. The Germans have also reached the j Dvhia ar Borkowitz, IS miles up the , stream from h'iga. !

RUSSIAN SUCCESSES.

The High Commissioner reports as follows: — , ; • EON DUN, October 22. Pet.rograd reports that at .lakobsta.rr the Germans, after an obstinate fight, beaten in the village. The Rusi sinus took 220 prisoners. On the Pripiat v number of villages were captured be>>w Katolovka, and also 440 prisoners. The Germans near Kolky were thrown back with enormous losses. The Germans used explosive bullets in the Styr lighting.

AUSTRIAN POSITIONS CAPTURED

BIG ATTACK IN PROGRESS. (Hoc. 12.50 a.m.') ROME, October 22. With a view to assisting Servia General Cndnnin ordered a general (advance in the Tyrol,' which lias ai(ready resulted in the taking of Pregas- / inn/the menacing of Riva, tho capture of Brentonico, and the tlireatenng of Revert o. It is estimated that 800,000 Austria-is are on the Italian front. VIENNA. October 22.

A communique states: Battles on n great scale are pi'Of.eoding on the whole north-western front. Numerous heavy [talian attacks in the Tyrol foiled.

GERMAN PATCHWORK, j

(Timeg and Sydney Sun Services). LONDON, October 21. Germany has revised her system Cor supplying men for the front. Two million who were previously discarded as unfit will be called up. They will be put through rigorous physical trailing and given good food and systematica! medical treatment for improving weak sight, strengthening poor chests and steeling bad nerves, AN ALLURING PICTURE. KATSER'S PROMISE TO BULGARIA. ROME, October 21. The Kaiser, in a proclamation to Bulgarian army, exalts their courage and heroism and adds: Bulgaria is destined *o become mistress of'tho Balkans and l" reign on the Black :;oa U:<« Aegean and the Adriatic.