IN THE BALKANS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17264, 4 September 1916, Page 7

IN THE BALKANS.

MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN.

SALONIKA FRONT UNCHANGFED. "

Heutur’s Telegram*. LONDON, September 1. British Salonika communiques re* port no change on our Struma*- anc] Doiran front. . A FRENCH REPORT. ARTILLERY SUCCESS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 3, 5i5 p.m.) PARIS, September 2. A French communique says:—Our ar* tillery set fire to the Pardovica station, a few miles north of Ghevgeli. The Serbians easily repulsed a Bulgarian night attack on the Vetrenik sector. BULGARS’ HURRIED RETREAT. HARD PRESSED BY SERBS. (Received September 3, 5.5 p.m.) - ATHENS, September 2. The Bulgarians have ■withdrawn from Sorovitchevo towards the passes of Ivirli Dorbend and Banica. Serbian, cavalry have reached Sorovitcbevo. The Bulgarians continue to retreat all. along, the Florina-Mouastir Valley. (Received September 3, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 2.’ The "Daily Chronicle's" correspond* ent at Athens says that the Bulgarians ai'9 falling back rapidly towards tha Monastir and Fiorina Plains. The Serbs are pressing on despite a shArp counter attaok by a Bulgar column upon the elopes of Gormichevo, the force being detailed to cover the Bulgar retreat. The attack failed, with heavy Bulgar losses, the Serbs capturing three Krupp guns. The retreat towards Monastic is so hurried that it may soon be turned into" a rout. The Bulgars already axe unable to remove their wounded. BULGARIA’S FATE. V \ f KING AND GROWN PRINCE QUARREL. (Received September 3, 5.5 p.m.) ROME, September 2. v The "Messagero ” says that there has been a violent quarrel between the King of Bulgaria and the Crown Prince Boris, on account of tho latter’s'Russophile tendencies. The King ordered Prince Boris to take his place in the army, but Prince Boris refused, and is now in hiding in Sofia.

CHIEF OF STAFF DEAD.

SOFIA, September 1. General Jostaff, Chief of the Bulgarian General Staff, is dead.

SUICIDE REPORTED

WOULD NOT LEAD BULGARIANS

TO DEFEAT.

(Received September 3, 5.5 p.m.)

ATHENS, September 2.

It is reported that General Jostoff committed suicide, not wishing to lead tht army to what he considered certain defeat. His suicide delayed tha Bulgarian declaration of war.

GERMANY APPREHENSIVE,

(Received September 3, p.m.)

THE HAGUE, September 2.

German newspapers show great tineasiness regarding Bulgaria. They admit that the frontiers are difficult to, defend, and should Greece join the Entente, Bulgaria may possibly be compelled to sue for peace, which would be a calamity for the Central Powers. ESSAD PASHA. _ t SAYS ALBANIA IS IN REVOLT. LONDON, September 1. Essad Pasha, in Paris, priclr to his departure for Salonika, declared that Albania was in a state of open revolution, owing to hunger. The Albanians had no wish for government in Prussian fashion and there Were already 20,000 /insurgents. When peace comes the Entente would decide Albania’s destinies. “ The violence of tho Austro-Hun-garian oppression has caused my exilo,” he says, “hut will not. last long, as I am rejoining the Allies in Salonika in the firm hope-of spending the winter in Albanian, territory.” . (Received September 3, 5.5 p.m.'J LONDON, September 2. A Rome wireless mesage says that Albanian insurgents annihilated or captured several Austrian garrisons, IN ALBANIA.

ITALIAN FORCE ADVANCES.

ROME, September j2. An Italian communiq-ao says:—

/We occupied Tepeleni at the confluence of the Viosa and theVojutza. The Albanian-Greek garrison withdrew westward. We took the villages Klog and Hckal near Carbonara, capturing some Austrians.