THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1916, Page 8

THE BALKANS.

HORRORS AT KAVA'LLA. CRIMINALS SACK THE TOWN. BULGARIAN RAVISHES. Aitstralian-N.Z. Cable Association. Athens, September 15. Five hundred refugees from Kavalla have reached Volo. They describe as horrible the proceedings when the Geimans demanded the surrender of the town. German airmen on Saturday bombed Kavalla, destroying the Stambul and Tscharchi quarters afod killing ten and injuring many people. German and Bulgarian officers arrived on Sunday and demanded the surrender of Kavalla, also of the Greek garrison. Soldiers thronged the port, demanding boats. The inhabitants took panic and overcrowded the boats, which sank, many women and children being drowned. Colonel Christodoulos refused to permit the Greek garrison to surrender. Many officers and soldiers were drowned while attempting to swim and reach the Allied warships, which arrived at the height of the crisis. The gaol warders fled and prisoners and criminals were, liberated and pillaged the town, the Turkish population co-operating. They sacked the markets, commercial and private houses, and Government depots. Order was only restored when a thousand citizens had been transported to Thasos. Many Bulgarian troops waited within a few minutes' distance of Kavalla. Several Bulgarian officers and soldiers entered the village of Dormidzik and destroyed houses, raped all young girls, and made prisoners of the men. MAKUKOVO CAPTURED. BRILLIANT SERBIAN VICTORY.

London, September 15. A French communique states that the English were violently engaged wit'n Bulgars supported by Germans, with tl.e result that the English captured Makukovo. The French tfave taken trenches on a 1500 metres front on the right bank of the Vardar. The Serbians have had a brilliant victory and have taken the greater part of the crest of Mallcanidze, at the point of the bayonet. Serbian cavalry are pursuing. The French and Russians are dispersing Bulgarian irregulars. London; September 15. A French communique says:—Cannonades continue in the Struma and Doiran fronts, particularly violent at . Montsbles. The English on the left • bank of the Vardar in a violent battle I defeated the Bulgars and Germans. The English ars firmly established at Makukovo. Berne, September 15. Bulgars taken prisoner in Macedonia confirm the existence of a Russophile movement, saying that it has even reached the Bulgarian army. \ Bucharest, September 15. Two allied airmen from Salonika, after bombing Sofia, arrived hack safely, the whole journey being covered in five hours. Salonika, September 15. The Serbian successes in the Petrieski region threaten to cut the communications between Bulgaria and Greece. The Bulgars are retiring at many points under pressure of the Serbians, who are occupying successive enemy positions.

THE CREEK CRISIS. GERMAN NEWS MADE TO ORDER. London, September 15. An Athens message of the 15th con firms the impression that M. Zaimis, prior to his resignation, had lost King Constantine's favor. Amsterdam, Septemoer 15. The Vossiehe Zeitung's correspondent states that at a meeting of (Greeks and Macedonians the whole population of Drama on Sunday cheered King Constantine and condemned M. Venezelos. The officers telegraphed to the King proraising blind obedience. The correspondent thinks there are no present indications of King Constantine's departure from neutrality. London, September 15. I The Daily Mail's correspondent at S Athens states that M. Demitrolcopoulos' j interview with the British Minister was I unsatisfactory, and that the crisis lias been re-opencd. 1 )