ON THE SERBIAN FRONT.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1915, Page 5

ON THE SERBIAN FRONT.

AUSTUu-UERMAN CONCENTRATION COMPLETE. ~ deceived Oct. 8, 12.55 a.m. Vienna, Oct. 7. Concentration on tlie Serbian frontier is completed. German officers are in supreme command. Sixty thousand Austrian:} have been detached to attack Klenak. General Mackensen's army has been able, to leave the Pripet marshes, and retire to Brest-Lilovsk, and portion of the army has gone to Serbia, ROUMANIAN TROOPS GO FORWARD. Received Oct, 8, 12.55 a.m. London, Oct. 7. Roumanian troops have been sent to the Bulgarian frontier, where the Qiur-gevo-Dunubc terminus erf the Roumanian railway to Turkey is being feverishly fortified. BULGARIA'S FIX.

MILITARY OFFICERS RESIGN. A CONTRAST IN MOBILISATION. Received Oct. 8, 12.38 a.m. London, Oct. 7. A Sofia telegram states that the city is calm. King Ferdinand and M. Radoslavoff, to the very moment of the disembarkation of the Allies at Salonika, were convinced that the Entente Powers would not pass beyond the limits of diplomatic action. Numerous Bulgarian officers are offering their resignations, but King Ferdinand refuses to accept them, and has issued a proclamation that in the event of war officers resigning will be considered traitors. Travellers from Sofia reaching Bucharest comment on the striking contrast of the present mobilisation as compared with that at the time of the Turkish war, when the troops departed garlanded with flowers, and to the soul-stirring songs of the populace. .Now the peasants are unconcerned and discontented.