THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1915, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

BAD NEWS FROM SERBIA MONASTIR CAPTURED. REFUGEES TO GREECE. SERBIAN MAIN FORCES THREATENED. Received Nov, IS, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov, i. The Evening News' Athens correspondent reports disquieting news from Serbia. It is reported that Monastir has been captured and communication with Salonika destroyed.

Refugees are pouring into Greece, ter-ror-stricken owing to the advance of , comitadjis, preceding the Bulgarian regulars. The comitadjis commit the vilest excesses, plundering, murdering, and mutilating civilians. The Serbians in the south are being driven to Albania, where means for obtaining provisions are difficult. Further north the attacks from the east and north are threatening to »ur- ' round and cut oil" the main Serbian forces.

Other Athens correspondents telegraph that the Bulgarian losses at Vardar were twenty-five thousand killed and wounded. Their left wing is now threatened by the Anglo-French from Privolak, Bulgarian reinforcements are rushing to oppose them.

BULGARIAN ATTACKS. MISEBAJ3LY FAIL. REPELLED BY FRENCH TROOPS, Salonika, Nov. 2. When the Bulgarians attacked Krivolak thay were caught obliquely by gunfire, subjected to a fierce bayonet charge, and , thrown from the right hank oi the Vnrdnr, which was swollen with rains. Many were drowned. An extremely violent Bulgarian attack oit iStrumnitza was easily repulsed, thanks to the superiority oi the French positions. The French casualties were one thousand and those of the enemy enormous. The Bulgarian attacks on the whole of tlia French front have failed miserably.

REPORTED NEW LANDING. AT A GREEK PORT. Amsterdam, Nov. S», The Tageblatt states that Anglo* French transports and troops have appeared off Kavala, SO miles south-east of Salonika, AUSTRO-GERMAN ADVANCE. APPROACHING KRAGIUBVATZ. London, Nov. 2. A Berlin communique states: Wo captured Cacao, on a branch railway thirty miles south of Kraguievats, giving an exit from the mountainous country south of Milanivac. We captured the heights south of Kraguievatz, oa both sides of the Morava,

IN SERBIA. \ SHALL ARMY. London, Nov. 8. Router slates, that information from an authoritative source has shows that Oformanv has only 150,000 troops against Serbia. Publicity given to -the German Aims has bad a disquieting effect in Turkish oflieiu! quarters, and there i» growing uneasiness at the possibility of German preponderance at Coastaati' noplc.