GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1915, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

OFFICIAL REPORTS. ITALIAN AND FRENCH. Received Nov, 17, 7.P.5 p.m. Roino, Nov. 17. A communique states: Wo repulsed two violent attacks at San Michel, inflicting heavy losses. Paris, Nov. 17. A communique reports: Violent Bulgar attackq at Ccrtm were renewed on the 14th, but nil were repulsed with heavy losses. There i<* a calm everywhere on the left bank of the Yardar. NOTES FROM THE TIMES. A GIRL HEROINE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received Nov.' 7, !>.2f> p.m. London, Nov. 18. A French order of the day narrates that a girl, 17 years of age, at Loos fought the Germans during the occupation and prevented molestation. When the British retool; the town she picked up the Highlanders and dressed their wounds. She killed five Germans with grenades and a revolver. Sir Douglas Haig expressed the armies' admiration of her courage in joining- in the attack on the enemy. PEACE TWADDLE. The German press has ecstatically seized on Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald's peace articles, and are alleging that ho is starting a general campaign. They say that Lord Loreburn's speech ha? proved that the bittar truth is dawning upon England. A GRECIAN FALSEHOOD. The Greek Minister in London has tieen authorised to deny that King Constantino helped the Goeben and Breslau to coal. They did not call near Athens. MONASTIR IN PERIL. Milan reports that the Monastir section is in a perilous situation. The Serbs are terribly weakened by their prodigious resistance, and they are now called on to meet masses of fresh troops' ARMS FOR TURKEY. Large quantities of munitions and guns are going from Bulgaria to Turkey, and the first big guns destined for the Dardanelles have arrived at Constantinople. ROUMANIAN OATS TO GERMANY. The first consignment to Germany of twenty thousand tons of oats has left liouinania, in confirmation of the agreement for buying up the Roumanian crops. Thus Germany is using the whole grain fields of Poland and the Balkans. GREEK TRICKINESS. Budapcstli papers assert that a Graeco-Bulgar agreement has been reached, dividing Serbian Macedonia, and that Greek officials have already been installed in parts thereof.