MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 9 July 1917, Page 5

MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN.

SUCCESSFUL COUNTER-ATTACK ! LONDON, July 6. A British official message from Salonika says: "We drove the enemy out of our trenches on the ridge westward of Doldzeli, in the Doiran sector, in which he had gained a temporary foothold. "Our aeroplanes bombed Drama and other camps and dumps. During June we dropped 19 tons of explosives on the enemy's lines of communication." MESOPOTAMIA. TURKS PREPARING TO RE-TAKE BAGDAD. NEW DIVISIONS BEING FORMED. UNDER A GERMAN GENERAL Received 8.45. ROME, July 8. "La Roma" learns from Turkish sources that the Turks are making great preparations to retake Bagdad and deferred Palestine. Ten new divisions are being formed for Asia, under a German marshal. 6BEKCE.

ITALY AND GREECE NEGOTIATING Received 8.45. ATHENS, July 8. Italy and Greece are negotiating for a re-approcbement, promising as a basis the Italians handing over Yanina to Greece. THE SERBO-GREEK TREATY. PXRIS, July 6. M. Venizelos, Premier of Greece, replying to the congratulations of M, Pasitch, Premier of Serbia, stated that Serbo-Greek community of interests was the surest guarantee of the peace and prosperity of the Balkans. Greece placed in the forefront the faithful execution of her alliance with Serbia, which would prove to the civilised world that she was not included among the nations holding treaties as scraps of paper. GERMANY'S INTERNAL TROUBLES. BREAD RATION TO BE INCREASED. Received 8.45. AMSTERDAM, July 8. Herr von Boeker, President of the War Supplies Department, has informed the Reichstag Committee that while June and July were the" most critical months of danger in regard to the reduced bread ration in the past, he was hopeful that he would be able to increase it early in August, when the meat rations would be reduced in srder to conserve milch cows The Prospects of the potato crops were better than in 1916. HOLLAND . FOOD RIOTS IN HOLLAND. 'A GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED. AMSTERDAM, July 6 Rioting has been almost completely ■suppressed. The revolutionary committee decided to terminate the strike and proclaim a general strike in the event of the Government declining to prohibit all exports of food. POLICE KILL RIOTERS. AMSTERDAM, July 7. The riots were renewed. The strik er s molested artillery workers. The crowd refund to fl i > nd soldiers fir, d , Wng onQ and