THE BALKAN WAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 August 1913, Page 5

THE BALKAN WAR.

CABLE NEWS

(United Prtu Auociation—By Mitotic Telegraph—Copyright)

FIXING THE BOUNDARIES. THE RIVAL CLAIMS. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) BUCHAREST, August 3. The Roumanian and Bulgarian delegates have practically agreed on the Turtukai, Dobritch and Baltchik frontier. Greece, Montenegro, and Servia propose the frontier" shall be nearer to Struma than the Vardar Valley. The Bulgarians insist that the Ish 7 tib and Egri Palanka districts be included in their frontier. Probably Lake Doiran will form the meeting-place of the new Bulgar-Serb-Greek territories.

GREEKS AND BULGARIANS. IN THE KRESNA PASS. ALLEGED ATROCITIES. (Received August 2, 11. 15 a.m.) LONDON, August 1. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent states that Sunday's battle at Kresna Pass was really a series of struggles for possession of isolated mountain peaks. At one spot two opposing companies ran short of ammunition ,and bombarded each other with stones, at a distance of fifteen yards across a narrow gully until the Greek lapidarians worsted the Bulgarians. Suddenly, at 5 o'clock, the Bulgarian bugles soumd, and disclosed a gi\-at line, of fresh troops, numbering twelve thousand, making a bayonet attack. It was a crucial test for the morale of the Greeks, but they remained steady, pumping magazine after magazine into th~ charging Bulgarians. Whole sections of Bulgarians were swept away, bu! other sections charged on. Dozens nf bloody bayonet combats resulted in the weary, unwatered, and unfed Greek line being driven back. Thousands of infantrymen in reserve enabled the Greek centre to reform. The armies exchanged bullets on the mountain slopes at one hundred yards range. Further Greek reinforcements, with machine' guns, enfiladed the Bulgarians right.' Everywhere the Bulgar line broke, but the Greeks were too weary, to pursue them, and lay down and slept! The Sixth Division alone lo«t 1300 men out of 10,000. The total Greek loss was 2500, the Bulgarians probably lost 6000.' • Several Greeks captured on Sunday were found Tvith their eyes "gouged out and ears and noses cut ofl\ One man so treated Is still alive.