MORE GERMAN BLUFF.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1915, Page 5

MORE GERMAN BLUFF.

MESSAGE TO THE SERBIAN PEOPLE. DISSATISFACTION IN BUI.GAR ARMY. Received Dec. ti, S.l p.m. London, Dec. 5. Solia officially announces that the Xish-Sofia railway has been restored. It is noteworthy that the Nish to Uelgradc line is still cut. General Mackensen has issued a proclamation to Serbia, seeking to gain the goodwill of a people whose, country has been laid waste, lie declares: "Wehave beaten the Serbian army, and will continue to fight them as long as they resist, but we are not lighting the Serbian people, whose lives and property are safe." He recommends refugees to return to their homes, resume their business, submit to military orders, and thus enable the Germans to help them regain their former prosperity. Salonika messages indicate that Bulgaria is tiring of war. Socialists and peasants from the interior made a demonstration before the Royal Palace at Sofia. The police, dispersed them, killing and wounding several. There are 240.000 Bulgarians in the field, and there is some unrest amongst them, as they fear the non-fulfilment of the promise that they would be allowed to return to their homes at Christmas, it is believed that the Austro-Gcrmans in Serbia now number 70,000. The Vossiche Zeitung estimates the AngloFrench on the Balkans front at SO,OOO, in strongly defended positions at Kentping and Ardar Pass. Near Krivolak the Bulgarians vainly endeavored to dislodge the Allies from their positions. At Doiran the Allies Ibombarded and destroyed a Bulgarian battlement.