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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 22 October 1912, Page 5

CORRESONDENTS NOT ALLOWED AT THE FRONT.

BULGARIANS OCCUPY SEVERAL

VILLAGES

LONDON, Oct. 21

Mr Beaumont, the Daily Telegraph's •Sofia correspondent, says that by a daring dasii a motor-car crossed three mountain ranges and reached Philippopolis. The authorities threatened to arrest the occupants if they continued their effort to reach the fighting front. Mr Beaumont states that a member of King Ferdinand's staff told him that 1,100 Bulgarian cavalry had a sharp fight with 2,000 cavalry. A general melee ensued, in which the Bulgarians lost a, hundred men, but were finally victorious. King Ferdinand watched the onslaught. The wounded were taken to the waiting-room at Philippopolis station.

The ; Bulgarians have occupied numerous villages, and are enrolling non-Mos-lems capable of service. Mr Beaumont heard that the Macedonian rebels are masters of the Salonika highway, and have dynamited bridges and great ] stretches of railway. 1