WOLVES HOWL ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE ARMIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 7

WOLVES HOWL ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE ARMIES.

COLD INTENSIFIED BY BITTER WINDS. BRITISH ON CAREFULLY-CHOSEN POSITIONS. Salonika, December 9. The Bulgarian attack in the Vardar Valley is confined to threfl or four gorges, where alone the Bulgarians can debouch. Ths mountains make the rest of the line impermeable except to the irregulars. The cold is intensified by piercing winds. A party of Anglo-French troops saw Bulgarians at 200 yds, bnt both parties were too overcome by the cold to attack. Wolves, driven by hunger, howl on the outskirts of the military camps by night. The Bulgarian attacks, although accompanied by great shell fire, have not been pressed with vigour. The French have established closer junction with the British on the latter'a carefully-chosen positions, which have been scientifically strengthened. In the last Bulgarian offensive, under cover of a thick mist, the enemy approached close to the British positions, and suffered heavily by machine-gun fire, the British losses being insignificant. Now that the Servians are practically disposed of the Bulgarians will probably strongly concentrate against the Franco-British lines