THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1916, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

A BRILLIANT VICTORY. WHOLE OF FLOEIXA CAPTURED, E-VEJIY FLEE IX DISORDER. Received Sept 19. 5.5 p.m. London, Sept IS. A French official report states: A brilli; tint Russo-French victory was achieved on the Rosna-Fiorina front. The French earrial by assault the whole of Florin.'!, the enemy fleeing in disorder towards Jlonastir. MOST BRILLIANT SUCCESS. GAINED BY THE SERBIAX^ -'ERiiTAX.S RE-EXTER TR C'OUXTRY, MONASTIR ABOUT TC FALL. A DASHIXG ACTIO-v'

Received Sept. 19, 10 p.m. ' _ London, Sept. 10. Tiie Serbian? secured a most brilliant success in the Fiorina Valley. The victorious army has re-entered Serbia. After the occupation of the defiles north of Sorovitch, the Bulgarians were unable to defend themselves, the rapidity of the attack not permitting them to reform or reinforce their broken line. Tlic domination of the heights of 1< lorina offered such disadvantages, Kwing ce. the turning movement of the Serbian loft, that the Bulgarc preferred to abandon iiieir own, and fled towards idomutir. The fall of the town is a quest'on o( oi'y a day or two. The Serbians advance guards are but nine miles distant, i Athens, Sept. lfl. General Cordonnier lmd charge of the turning movement at Fiorina, urging the troops not to give the Bulgars a moment to reform on th.; line of trenelie? prepared on the plain of Monastic The avriva' of the Serbians at Brod threatens to turn these entrenchments. The Bulgarian prisoners arc downeast and exhausted They blame the German ofiicer? for the disaster. Tlr. Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent states that the Serbians are closely pursuing the Bulgarians towards Moinstir. Theie is a great exodus of Bulgarian famines from Mona'.tir. . The Bulgarians are sending the archives to Uskub. A ivircles-: from Rome states that 'ving C'onstar.tine has telegraphed to the commander of the fourth army that surrendered to the Bulgarians congratulating him upon his patriotism. Further groups of Greek soldiers have applied to fit Bulgarians for transfer to Germany. The ('reek Cabinet has resolved upon '.in immediate general election. Receive.: Sept. 10, 8.30 p.m. London, Sept. 19. Toe JJaily Telegraph's Athens correspondent states that, the regiment of Greek oalonii:;. volunteers, under the Greek Colonel Kravani, participated in the tnrniiig movement in the fighting at Ki'sisi:, foutii of Fiorina, and received the Flench commander's praise. A French nilicial eomnuiniue states: The Serbian evrrain of machine-gun fire it A etixnik subjected the counter-at-tack of the Jlulgariaiis to heavy losses. The Serbians pursued the advance further -.vest, despite the difficulties of the ground, dashirglv captured the powerfully oiganiseil Bulgarian first line on the !\ajmackr,l<in crest. A counterattack, was repulsed. The battle on; •'lie Eosna-Florloa front was fiercely contested during tie whole of Sunday night, large Bulgarian forces, after a desperate hut futile resistance, vainly multiplied the counter-attacks Cavalry charges of the French carried Fiorina at ten o'clock next morning. y-

GERMANY'S ONLY HOPE. COMMANDS IN TRANSYLVANIA. London, September 18. ! The Daily News' Petrograd correspondent says that Hindenburg, believing tho south-eastern section the most critical, is himself taking command in Transylvania and the Carpathians and sending every available man to the front, making the enemy's forces in the south-east lj millions, of whom 300,000 are distributed among their weaker allies. Military critics in Petrograd opine that Jfackenson's decisive victory in the Doburdja is mythical. Really the Allies, opposed by superior numbers, retired to stronger position?, the rear-guards inflicting the heaviest losses. GREAT SERBIAN SUCCESS. London, September 18. The Daily Mail's Amsterdam correspondent states that the Vossichc Zeitung alleges that a German division east of Silistria drove back the Roumanian:- on the Russians, and simultaneously the Bulgars and Germans outflanked the Russo-Roumanian right, driving it in on the Serbians. Thus Mackensen's line formed a loop, fdrcing the Russians and Roumanians to withdraw. Renter's Odessa correspondent states that a Serbian division in the early fighting in the Dobrudja repulsed eighteen attacks by Germans and Bulgarians rounjJ Bayona, including the Gorman cavalry, who tried to make the Serbian rear. After three hours' close quarters fighting the enemy lost 5000 men. (A GERMAN REPORT Received Sept. 10, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 18. A German communique states: The Russo-Roumanians, after a. three days' retreat, have taken no a. position on the Rasova-Cobadin-Tuzla line, where they were reinforced. GREEK MINISTRY UNSATISFACTORY. Athens, Sept. 18. Sir I\ Elliott, British Minister, interviewed by the Nea Hellas on the new situation, said that the Kalogeropeulos Ministry was certainly not satisfactory. FOGARAS CAPTURED. Paris, Sept. 18. The Roumanians have captured; the Hungarian town of Fogaran, ' k