THE WAR IN THE EAST. [BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2086, 19 November 1885, Page 2

THE WAR IN THE EAST. [BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.]

Bm/;hvde, No\oinli(r IG. Vi)Vin:s states th it desperate tight ing took pi. ice yesterday between the .S«-r\i.in nnd Bulg.uian forces. The former succeeded in turning the position at, Ihugomano Pass. The force of Bulg.tiians retre<it upon Sin i.it/.i. Soi i\, No\ ember 17. Piiuce Ale\,uider h.ts recehed fiom tli(> SiilLui a reply to his lequcbt for <iid. The l'otte declines to assist JJulg.iri.i, and points out that Alexanders \ iol.ition of the Treaty of JJerhn em on raided tlio Scr\ i.vis to iu\,ule Hidgaria. London', No\einhor 17. Intelligence is to liand th.it the town of Kul. i h.\^ l>een captured by the Servians after a stubborn resistance on the part of the Bulyari.uis, who are retreating to Widdin. Twenty thousand Rounielian troops are nurching to Sofia to assist the Bulgarians. Routnania is protesting against the fortification of Widdin, tins being reg.irdcd as a breach of the Berlin Treaty, which stipulated that all fortresses in Bulgaria should be destroyed. The Roumanian Government have aKo advanced a claim to .Sihstria, a Bulgarian frontier town.