IN THE BALKANS.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13667, 8 September 1916, Page 2

IN THE BALKANS.

THE COMING .OFFENSIVE, .:, j ' VIOLENT ARTILLERY ACTION (Per Cable— AsSbciatton—Copyright!™ (Australian and N.tf, Cable Association), - LONROjf, ■ Septenjljer, ,6.. A French coirimuiiiquc says: There is a 'violent,artillery ;action.' 'oij-.'the Struma-Lalic: Doifan - front an.d\'oh : the whole of the.Serbipi'front; . ..... PLIGHT; OX ,OQNSTANTINOP)[»E. ' ft ■ v'("Thb TiraoS |~ :'SM.vic6,) '' • .• :.M ' Mr. Bourehicr; -'The Timtis correapondent, \ tfelcgraphing-frorii Coiistanza,, on thc-cpasfc'pf-RtiniaiiiaV' reports that Constanhnopj^'presents the, aspect ; ot.'a city in foreign occupation,.' There'- aid Austrian, .soldiers everywhere,; ljut;,, Germans are. less numerous,while the • Turkish soldiers have almost 'disappeared. Germany's* proiuisecV .contingent.' of 130,000 rpinforcenients /against. Russians has not , afrived... German; force's. who hithert'o' ljavo been at, Constantinople .have'gone- to Asia' Minor,' .Mistrusted Christian troops will be kept : busy' strengthening the 'fortifications. .on the European. qf .the Bosphoriis,' All males frbnr seventeen' to sixty years , have been enrolled in the army, and 'boys of sixteen : years have been called,lip for'tr.ahiiiig; ; Espionage "has 'increased, but & revolution is not; anticipate as the,vYoung lurks are absolute masters.--- •- •

• turkey.desperate.;. CALLING t UP .Olit); MEMAiNDiBQYS, '-h,;. 'V.M' (Australiah and n,z, Cablo Association), ■ Receivc(l'Septeinl)er7,l2,'io aim.V ; ' ' • PARIS, September .7. • Turkey has ordered a levy eri mass®, of those between 17 and oo y'eare,' regardless of nationality.

ITALIANS IN BALKANS. . GOOD WORK REPORTED. •; (Australian and N.Z, Otitis Association)* • Received September 7, 6,5 p.m. ( ATHENS, September 6. flic Italians continue .to advance into (lie interior of Epirus. Tlicy are abolishing Greek authority' and are constructing go.od. roads and technical works.