BULGARIA IS SATISFIED.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 December 1917, Page 5

BULGARIA IS SATISFIED.

Received 11.10. . .■>■■ AMSTERDAM, Dec 3. A Sofia telegram staTelTthat Radoslavoff, in the Sobranje, said Bulgaria was disposed to ente. into peace, therefore they responded to Lenin's invitafctton. Bulgaria Sad obtained the object of the war, nalSely, the Union of the Bulgarian race, including Macedonia and the Dobruuja. Airfhe peace discussions would be based on this contention.

VALUABLE CAPTURES BY BRITISH. LONDON, December 3. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Rifle, North Country, and Home County battalions fthis morning captured some fortified buildings and strong positions on* the main ridge northward of Passchendaele. GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. | LONDON, December 3. Wireless German Official.—There was most violent artillery fire all night astride the Passchendaele ridge. The ! Englisd attacks eastward and westward of Moeuvres broke down. We cleared the enemy out of Masnieres. .We repulsed strong counter-attacks, after desperate fighting on the We*st bank of the Scheldt, also westward of i Vendhuile, taking several hundred prisoners. Our captures now total 60 guns, and 100 machine guns. BRITISH WITHDRAWN. FROM DANGEROUS SALIENT. Received 11.10. LONDON, Dec 3. The Exchange Telegraph's correspondent at Paris says the rectification of the front which the British carried out south of Cambrai was necessary owing to the sharp salient at Masnieres constituting a weakness exposing the troops to massacre or capture. The British voluntarily evacuated the position without the enemy's knowledge The latter continued to Sail shells against the abandoned position. The Germans since fne 20th used twenty divisions in this sector. The Prussian battalions in their mad rushes suffered terribly, and there was a veritable hecatomb.