THE BALKAN THEATRE

Grey River Argus, 22 October 1915, Page 5

THE BALKAN THEATRE

BULGARIANS DRIVEN FROM t VRANIA. ■ ! ALLIES TROOPS AT NISH. (Reed. 7.40 p.m.) - ATHENS, October 20. There are reports that the Bulgarians have been thrown ' out of Vrania and railway communication restored. Bucharest states that 30,000 AngloFrench have reached Nish. Other contingents are marching towards Negotim and Prahovo to assist Serbians . on . the north-eastern fronts. * -SOFT SOAP FOR THE BULGARIANS. \. " ' t ROME, October 20. r The Kaiser, in a proclamation to r the Bulgarian Army, exalts their \ courage and heroism, and adds that $ Bulgaria is destined to become the mistress of the Balkans and reign on. the Black Sea,. Aegean and Adriatic. ITALIAN FLEET SAILS. : (Reed. 11.30 p.m.) ; LONDON, October 21. A Brindisi despatch states Italian squadrbn has departed under sealed . orders, its supposed objective being . participation in the blockade of the ; Bulgarian ports. . SERBS RETAKE SEMENDRIA. PARIS, October 20. , "L'lntransigeant" states that the . Serbians have retaken Semendria. i A message from Salonika states that numerous detachments- of Turks with * strong artillery are marching along - 1 the Greek-Bulgarian frontier towards 3 Serbia. CYPRUS OFFERED TO GREECE. (Reed. 6.35 p.m.) . LONDON, October 20. 1 Britain offered Greece Cyprus on ] condition that she joined in the war. ' Greece is considering. ( GREEK REPLY NOT YET ' RECEIVED. ] (Reed. 10.15 p.m.; LONDON, October 20. The "Daily Telegraph's" Athens correspondent states that the offer is creating a favourable impression, and is regarded as a substantial proof of Britain's goodwill, not taking the form of a promise for a future which the Germanopile Party suggest that Britain could not? carry out if they might, but an actual immediate concession in the event of the Greeks interven- , ing to support the Allies. , ~\. FEMALE TRAM CONDUCTORS. (Reed. 7.40 p.m.) ] LONDON, October 20. 1 The Government has granted per- ] mission for women to be conductors on motor omnibusses and trains in i London, thus releasing eligibles. BATTLE OF LOOS. GERMAN COUNTER-ATTACK DESCRIBED. , LONDON, October 20. ( Mr Gibbs was an eye-witness to the « repulse of the counter-attack at Loos ] on the Bth. i Tme Germans for days brought up reserves of men and guns. j Our troops crouching in the old « German trenches stood the ordeal of a concentrated bombardment. i The trenches were strewn with 1 shrapnel and black coal-box shells c flung up the earth in all directions; yet the casualties were comparative]; slight. . Finally the Germans at mid-after-noon opened a violent rifle and machine-gun fire, and the fifty yards between the opposing trenches war filled with poison gases and smokr balls. Then, through the dense curtain, * loomed up a line of figures rapidly c advandßft .; The Germans came on swiftly four * deep, shoulder to shoulder. The British rifles and machine guns v were ready arid plunged streams of. * lead into the shadow figures. * Numbers fell, and -others tried to crawl" back to tfie trenches. We concentrated fire upon groups, and few escaped. . Meanwhile enemy aeroplanes directed a curtain of fire to prevent our supports coming up. .•' The task of the British infantry, however was finished and they had (i only to watch the h^aps of Qerrr.nn dead in the smoke whence a few survivors now and then wriggled back , to their own line. The German attack was not ml/ re- r pulsed but shattered. .; GERMAN SUBMARINE'S EX- *' PLQITS. ; (Reed. 8.10 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, October 20. Berlin claims that a German submarine in September sank twenty-nine steamers, of, a tonnage of 103,315, seven fishing vessels and two transports, jj and mines destroyed six steamers. . j