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Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1917, Page 5

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A FRENCH ATTACK. A BULGARIAN STATEMENT. Received Sept. 5, '."m p.m. Lou lon. Oct. 4. j '& Bulgarian communique states: There was a very violent enemy bombardment of the Macedonian front on September 2. At dawn yesterday the French attacked at Tchcrvcsa, Stena, and we»t of Bitolia. Our curtain nV» repulsed them. SERBIANS APPEAL FOR HELP. London, Sept. 4. The Press Bureau announces inat the eerbian Press Bureau publishes an appeal to all the Allies for heip to save the unfortunate .Serbian population. The internal conditions are deplorable. The enemy baa removed the whole harvest, the inhabitants have only one loaf weekly, and children are dying in thousand" for lack of milk. About eighty thousand interned Serbian prisoners have perished in Austria-Hungary. BTJLGARIA REFUSES HELP TO AUSTRIA. Berne, Sept. 4. H* Bulgarians have refused to send reinforcements to Austria. Relations are strained in conseq-'Tice of disagreements concerning Serbia, where there have been open conflict* beacon Austrian and Bulgarian troops. 'AUUB9 OFFENSIVE IN MACEDONIA. Paris, Sept. 4. Le Petjt Parisicn states that the Allies haW initiated an energetic offensive In Macedonia 'with a view to preventing Hhe Bulgarians from reinforcing the Austrian* on the Roumanian front. They plan this to relieve the Allies in Mo'd•rta.