ZEPPELINS FOR THE BULGARS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1915, Page 5

ZEPPELINS FOR THE BULGARS.

CONSTRUCTED AT SOFIA. Received Nov. 7, 11.5 p.m. London, Nov. 7. The Times' Salonika correspondent says that the Germans are constructing immense Zeppelins in a shed at Sofia. UNTIL NOVEMBER 19. SERBIANS CANNOT HOLD OUT LONGER. BULGARS' MARCH ON MONASTIR. Received Nov. 7, 11.5 p.m. Rome, Nov. 7. By making a great effort, writes Signor Magrini, the Serbians will be able to hold out till November 19, but no longer. The trains from Monastir for Salonika are full of refugees. All males from sixteen to sixty years of age have been sent to the trenches. The inarch of the Bulgars to Monastir is attended with danger, as it is menaced by the Franco-British on their flanks. The Serbians have prepared defences on the Marmoritza hills, eleven milen northwest of Monastir, to enable tliem to make a stand there. ITEMS FROM ITALY. .SERBIA'S LAST.HOPE—THE RAINS. Received Nov. 7, 11.5 p.m. Rome, Nov. 7. 11 Secolo's Salonika correspondent -lates that during the Uskub battle the Serbians became disorganised, with the result that the Macedonian regiments are laying down their arms and deserting.

Serious reports come from Albania. The Albanians at Pribrend, Jakova, and Bibra are rising against the Serbians. That rain will cause delays to the Aus-tro-Germans is the Serbians' last hope. Countless enemy guns are immobilised and endanger the Morava Valley. General Mackensen daily asks for fresh reinforcements, and this is embarrassing headquarters, since the reserves are of poor quality.

ON THE SEA

TRANSPORT SUNK. , IN THE AEGEAN. 225 INDIANS DROWNED. London, Nov. 5. The Press Bureau states that a submarine sank the transport Ramazan in the Aegean Sea by shell fire on September 19. Three hundred Indians were aboard, of whom 75 were savsd. SINKING OF THE RAMAZAN. BOATS DESTROYED BY SHELLFIRE. Received Nov. 7, 3.50 p.m. London, Nov. 0. The Press Bureau states that a submarine shelled the Ramazan oft' Anteeythera, and smashed a number of boats by shellfire. The survivors reached Antecythera in their own boats the same night. Twenty-eight of the crew were also saved. ANOTHER FIRE AT SEA. ON A SUGAR STEAMER. Received Nov. 7, 3.50 p.m. Halifax (Nova Scotia), Nov. C. The British steamer , Rio Lagos caught fire in mid-ocean, and has returned here. She reported that an incendiary bomb had been discovered in the sugar cargo. A steam hose enabled Hie crew to control the outbreak and return. The vessel's cargo was consigned to the British Sugar Commission at Queenstown, and was loaded by Austro-German stevedores at Yonkers, New York. OCEAN-GOING STEAMERS. 22 PER CENT. ACQUIRED BY ADMIRALTY. Received Nov. 7, 11.5 p.m. , London, Nov. 7. The Financial Times says that tlie Admiralty has acquired the control of eight hundred ocean-going steamers, approximately twenty-two per cent, of the British tonnage engaged in the overseas trade. Probably the number will be raised to nine hundred in the near future.

THE GRAND FLEET. A DUTCH TRIBUTE. ' London, Nov, 5. A correspondent of the Telegraaf, after a visit to the British North Sea fleet, writes: "Say nevermore that the British have not done enough in this war. If she had equipped the greatest army in the world, the war couldn't be won by it, but only by her strength at sea. The commerce of her Allies has been kept going and the sinews of war provided bv the ever-watchful British fleet." The correspondent adds that he cannot conceive conditions wherein the British fleet would get the worst of a naval engagement.