GENERAL. MAURICE'S VIEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 September 1918, Page 5

GENERAL. MAURICE'S VIEWS.

BULGARIAN DIFFICULTIES

GREAT.

SECUATtON PREGNANT WITH

POSSIBILITIES

(Received Sept. 28, 9.5 a.m.)

, „ LONDON, Sept. 27. General Maurice writes: Now that the French have occupied Prilep and the Serbians have captured the Popamya mountains,, which are along the ''madn'iheights of the Babuna range and control Veles, the First "Bulgarian Army under General Tesoff can only retire by one xoad to Kritchevo which is completely separated from the' rest of the.Bulgarians by the Karadfitza mountains. The Bulgarians can only retire if the centre group, which is retiring in disorder before the Serbians, manages to check the advance in {he VaaxJar valley and covens Uskub. The Serbians ; axe,.= already considerably, nearer Uskub than General Tesoff'e axmy, and if the Serbians get there first his aarmy wfill be cut off altogether from the railway, and will have to find a new way through tbe~mouiitains as thej .best may, without a prdspe»Tfc of .being^jsupph^ munitions. 'Wfe••/may-" be "certain, that ijhe enemy is doing everything to rush up troops under covfer ;of Uskub. Th» tataon is pregnant with possibilities. Serbian© able to fight well on ons which would mean starvation tovßritfish troops, but they must have ammunition, f We must remember that they are already a long way from their railway®.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assm.