THE BALKANS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 November 1915, Page 5

THE BALKANS.

DISQUIETING NEWS.

SERBIANS »ARD PRESSED

REPORTED CAPTURE OF

MONASTIR

LONDON, Nov. 3

The Evening News' Athens correspondent reports disquieting news from Serbia. It is reported that Monastir has been captured and communication with Salonika destroyed.

Refugees are pouring into Greece, terror-stricken owing to the advance of comitadjis preceding the Bulgarian regulars. The comitadjis commit the vilest excesses, plundering, murdering, and mutilating civilians. The Serbians in the south are being driven to Albania, where means for obtaining provisions are difficult. Further north the attacks from the coast and north are threatening to surround and cut off the main Serbian forces.

Other Athens correspondents telegraph that the Bulgarian losses at Vardar were twenty-five thousand killed and wounded. Their left wins; is now threatened by the Anglo-French" from Krivolak. Bulgarian reinforcements are rushing to oppose them. A Berlin communique states: We i captured Cacac, on a branch railway thirty miles south of Kraguievatz, giving an exit from the mountainous country south of Milanivac. We captured the heights south of Kraguievata on both aides of tire Morava.