THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1917, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

BULGARIAN PREMIER CENSURED. A SIGNIFICANT REPLY. Received Jan. 2, 5.30 p.m. London. Jan. 1. , The Times correspondent at ArnsterVlam reports that the Bulgarian Opposition attacked the Premier (M. Radoslavnff) because the Government sent Bulgarian troops beyond the Danube. M. RadoslavofT replied that the Bulgarian High Command regarded the destruction of the Roumanian armies as essential, and claimed that the Anstro-Gorman.of-ficers in Bulgaria were under Bulgarian control. He added, significantly, that the Bulgarian army's work was finished. THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE. , GAINS -A.VD LOSSES. Received Jar.. 2, 10 p.m. London, fan. 1. A wireless Russian official mcwag-3 states: We repulsed - a German offensive southward of Pinsa. The enemy strongly attacked the Roumanians on both tanks of the Kaz'mo, eastward of the Moldavian frontier The Roumanians maintained theit positions. Tlie Roumanians were obliged to retire in the region of Patrcunu, westward of Foehani. We took up new positions from Foehani to the.Danube without enemy pressure. The enemy attempted to advance in Roumania westward of Brailov, but was compelled to retire in disorder and entrench. Twenty-three enemy battalions attacked our centre in the liobrudja and compelled us to retire to our next line.

BOMBARDMENT OF MONASTIR. A GREECO-.IERMAN AGREEMENT. Paris. Jan. 1. The Germano-Bulgars, reinforced and full-munitionc'l, are maintaining a steady bombardment of Monastir. The French newspaper quote. Germna and Gresk document showing an agreement between Germany and King Constantinc to combine against the Allies when tin Germano-Bu.igars re-ad-vance upon Monastir. GERMAN ADVANCE ADMITTED. London, Jan. 1. Official.—The only important military operations last week occurred in Wallaehia .where the enemy has advanced towards Braila, despite a vigorous Rus-sian-Roumanian resistance. FLIGHT OF ROUMANIAN CIVILIANS. Petrograd, January 1. The flight of Roumanian civilians from the districts occupied or threatened by the enemy has assumed vast propor tions, tflie stations being crowded with fugitives miserably awaiting trains. Happily the winter is mild, otherwise thousands would die of cold. A BRAVE WOMAN. ;' London Dec. 31. The Daily Chronicle's Salonika correspondent states that the only woman patient in the camp of wounded Serbians is Miss Flora Sands, formerly a nurse. After witnessing the Serbian suffering and heroism, she enlisted as a private during 1915. In the retreat she won promotion to sergeant, and participated in the September offensive. For three months she was in an atmosphere of bursting Shells, whistling bullets, and hand-to-hand encounters, and finally, in the attack on the high crests, Miss Sands wa's first out of the trench across the snow-covered ground and reached the Bulgar trenches. A hand-grenade burst, inflicting twentyfive wounds. A Royal aide-de-camp, on behalf of the Serbian Prince Regent, visited the hospital, and presented sier with a decoration that is only given for conspicuous bravery.