THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1916, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

SUCCESSFUL ARTILLERY WORK.

REPRISALS FOR AIR RAIDS* BULGARIANS DRiVEN HACK. London, Sept. 28. A War Office communication from Salonika says: Our ar!:i'.'ery dispersed working parties on the Doirnn front. Enemy aircraft are a?tive. The navy shelled an enemy column on I ho Struma front near JUazolidos. i'rcr.ch artillery also dispersed a column at Jeniinah. Our naval aeroplanes bomb?J the rail: way station at Andicta.

A French communi([ii> .stales: English artillery is bombarding a position on the Struma front. Our heavy batteries dispersed a Bulgarian column towards Aenimali. The Franco Russians stopped t'.vo Bulgarian attacks eastward and westward of Fiorina, j.eroplanes bombed Kenali, south-castv ard of ilonastir. Salonika Sept. 28. The British bombarded the enemy cantonments toward; Acniuiah A Bulgarian column suffered heavy loose's under artillery fire. At Kaimacklan the Bulgars lost heavily \\l,en attacking the Serbians. AM.cn:, Sept. 2?. It h expected that General Sarrail will embark on severe seprisais by lir raids on Sofia, in conseq icuce' (f the continuance of German bombings of Bucharest. I'ari=, Sept. 28. The Salonika correspondent of the Echo de 'Paris states that the FrancoSerbians, resuming the offensive on Sunday, drove the Bulgarians lack four kilometres and captured three villages. They chased the Bulgarians from all then positions before Fiorina. Our shells passed over the town, 'blowing up the enemy's works and batteries. London, Sept. 28.

A Serbian communique states: Despite Bulgarian attacks at Kajmacklan, we held the principal positions. Our losses were heavy, but the Bulgarian losses were enormous, and corpses heaped the wire entanglements. ENEMY AIR RAIDS. Received Sept 29, po p.m. Bucharest, Sept. 28. Official: Seventy-five people have been killed and many injured by the enemy air raids, most o: the victims being women and children. ,