SERVIANS UNCEASING ACTIVITY

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 138, 8 December 1916, Page 7

SERVIANS UNCEASING ACTIVITY

FOLLOWING UP THE SUCCESS AT GRUNISTA

(Australian-New Zealand Cable Association.) (Received December 8, 8.30 a.m.) Th» n=,;i, t ru. j LONDON, 7th December. Ihe JJaily telegraphs correspondent, at Salonika says: "Pursuing their mXhfh DOr ./ ?"T' a ' the, SeT ans <F°^ *he River Gr^efhi.^!

active operations for a single day. After attacks extending over sis days and nights, a final desperate assault carried a whole series of stron_ly-fortified heights, the Bulgars and Germans flying in disorder, leaving seven guns and many prisoners. .The guns captured total 79. . * i. A ITY? an offici?' communique states : There is violent artillery and infantry fighting on the whole front. We carried strongly-fortified and tena-ciously-defended heights north-east of Bodimerci. A fairly large number of prisoners and booty were captured. A DBFFICULT FRONT TO HOLD. (Received December 8, 8.30 a.m.) „ „--,„. LONDON, 7th December. Mr. Ward Price says : "We must remember that the Allies in the -Balkans are holding a front 250 miles long, and one more difficult than any other theatre of war. The Allied offensive is being carried out with forces much-in-ferior to those of the enemy."