ALLIED BELGRADE CONTINGENT REACHES MONASTIR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 280, 24 November 1915, Page 5

ALLIED BELGRADE CONTINGENT REACHES MONASTIR.

i FORCED MARCHES ACROSS ALBANIAN FASTNESSES. YON GALLWITZ GOING TO BULGARIA'S AID. SERBS DRIVE BACK BULGARS WITH 10,000 CASUALTIES. (Received 1.1-5 p.m.) SALONIKA. November 23. The British, Russian and French marines who have assisted in the defence of Belgrade since October, 1914, reached Monastir on November 16 and the two following days. General Picot, the French commander, states that they left Belgrade a few minutes before the German occupation, first destroying their guns. The French contingent, by forced marches, reached Monastir without the loss of a single man, but suffered much hardship crossing the Albanian fastnesses by trackless paths in the most inhospitable region in the ■world. The contingent's only food was bread. The situation at Monastir is uneliangea. The Bulgarians arc still held up Eouth of Prilip. It is reported that General yon Gallwitz, with an army corps from the Russian front, is coming to the aid of the Bulgarians against the British and Trench. The Serbians on Sunday morning drove back the Bulgarians round Monastir eight kilometres, the enemy casualties totalling 10,000.