BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1918, Page 5

BALKANS.

HEAVY FIGHTING SUCCESSFUL SERBIAN ADVANCE. Received Oct. 25, 1.25 a.m. London, Oct. 24. A French Eastern communique states: After 'heavy fighting the Serbians carried the Bukowinek massif, north-east of Alex'inatz. Allied forces have reached Bor mines, north-west of Zaitchar.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. TREATMENT, OF PRISONERS. HORRIBLE BRUTALITY TO SERBS AND RUSSIANS. # Received Oct. 24, 7-30 p.m. « London, Oct. 23. Mr. Ward Price, writing from Sofia, says the first party of British prisoners has arrived. They state that they were generally well treated, their sufferings ilieing principally due to fbe ignorance and callousness of their captors, who stinted the food. The prisoners mainly subsisted on Home parcels. There was much malaria and influenza, and 200 died-

Serb prisoners were treated with horrible cruelty. Of 50,000, only 30,000 survived. The Serbs were thrashed and worked to death, and often prisoners were killed. They lay in the mud when ill, and were allowed to die witfibufc the slightest attempt, being made to alleviate their sufferings. The Russian prisoners were similarly treated. —Time* Service. IN MACEDONIA. BULGARIAN ATROCITIES. Received Oct. 25,12.55 a.m. Salonika, Oct. 23. The Greeks have now occupied the whole of eastern Macedonia. The liberated towns are desolated. Indeed, the Bulgarian destruction is so complete that it is impossible to trace many of the villages.

Of twelve thousand inhabitants of Demrihissar, only two thousand remain, and these are like skeletons. Only a sixth of the pre-war population remains in eastern Macedonia. Women were forced to work, building fortifications under fire. Throughout the whole of Macedonia there are only a few Women and girls who have not been outraged, while many have heen deprived of their hair. The Bulgars not only deported the male population, but enrolled all eligibles in the Bulgarian Army.—Reuter Service. ,-'