BULGARIAN FORCES ENTER GREECE'S TERRITORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16265, 26 June 1916, Page 5

BULGARIAN FORCES ENTER GREECE'S TERRITORY.

REPORTED TO BE ADVANCING FROM TWO POINTS. BELIEVED TO HAVE TAKEN GREEK FRONTIER FORTS. (Received June 25, 7 p.m.) LONDON, JUNE 24. The Daily Chronicle's Salonika correspondent states that the Bulgarians are reported to be advancing from two points towards the important fort of Feapetra, northward of Demirhissar. Bulgarians have also crossed the River Mesta, the dividing line between Bulgaria and Greek Macedonia. This is taken to indicate that the Bulgarians have taken the Greek frontier forts.

The River Mesta, also known as the Kara Su, rises on "the southern slopes of the Rhodope Mountains, in Eastern Macedonia, about 60 miles south-west of the Bulgarian town of Philippopolis. It flows in a south-easterly direction through the Razlog Valley, and in its lower reaches forms the boundary line between Bulgaria and Greece. The river has formed a huge delta, where it meets the Sea, opposite the Greek island of Thasos, and 40 miles east of Kavala. Demii hissar is a Greek town of 6000 inhabitants, 50 miles north-east of Salonika, and 10 miles south of the Grasco-Bulgarian frontier. It lies in the valley of the River Struma, which flows from Bulgaria southwards to Lake Tahinos, 40 miles south-east of Salonika. The town and station of Demirhissar were reported to have been occupied by the Bulgarians on May 28 last.