BALKANS.
OREgKS ON GUARD, ITEMS FROM SALONIKA Received Feb. 18, 9.25 p.m. Salonika, Feb. 17.. Tin; Austrians have ceased the offensive at Durazzo, owing to arrivals of Italian troops. Generalissimo Putnik has joined the Serbians at Corfu. General Sarrail shortly visits King Constantine. The Greeks in a two hours' fight routed another band of Bulgarian comltadjis who were penetrating Greece. , The Greeks are now vigilantly guarding the whole frontier. ROUMANIA ANXIOUS RECONNOITRING AIR SQUADS COMPLICATIONS LIKELY Received Feb. 18, 9.25 p.m. Bucharest, Feb. 17. Roumania is anxious as to the movements of Germans and Bulgars on the frontier. She sent three squadrons of aeroplanes over Bulgaria, and the airmen reported that they had seen fifty thousand troops and a few new trenches, but no heavy artillery. The aeroplanes evaded a very heavy infantry and artillery fire. Paris question.? whether serious complications are not likely to be a sequel to Roumania's air raid. TROOPS FOR ROUMANIAN FRONT. Received Feb, IS, 5,25 p.m, ' Zurich, Feb. 17. The Austro-Swiss frontier is closed owing to heavy troop movements towards the Balkans, especially towards the Roumanian frontier.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19160219.2.32
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1916, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
182BALKANS. Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1916, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in