RUSSIAN TROOPS LANDED IN BULGARIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16538, 11 November 1915, Page 5

RUSSIAN TROOPS LANDED IN BULGARIA

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{Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, November 9. The evening newspapers approve of Lord Kitchener's journey as indicating that the Balkan problem will be handled vigorously and on the most comprehensive lines. The Pall Mall Gazette says that the general conditions in the Neai East reproduce on the largest scale the state of anarchy that used to obtain in Egypt, and it believes that Kitchener will repeat his Egyptian success. BULGARIA AND GREECE. ALLEGED AGREEMENT CONCLUDED. TO DISMEMBER SERBIA AND ALBANIA. ROME, November 9.' Relations between Bulgaria and Greece are daily becoming more intimate and frequent. It is reported that the two Powers have concluded an agreement to dismember Serbia and Albania. It is said that Bulgaria has renounced her claim to Kalava in exchange for Greece's support in obtaining Durazzo. ENEMY REPORTS. JUNCTION OF INVADING FORCES. AMSTERDAM, November 9. German official telegrams claim that Krushevatz has been occupied. A Bulgarian communique states: We are pursuing the hastily-retreating Serbians along the whole front. Our troops northward of Nish have functioned with the Germans near Para-chin, in the Morava Valley, between Kraguievatz and Krushevatz. RUSSIAN TROOPS LANDED. ALLIED FORCES AT SALONIKA. ■ OVER TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND. ROME, November 9. j . The Salonika correspondent of II Corriere della Sera (Milan) states that the Russians have landed 80,000 troops on the Bulgarian coast, while the Allies have landed 220,000 troops at Salonika. Another despatch states that a large number of Russian torpedo boats and destroyers are going up the Danube to attack the Austrian river fleet. "GOOD-BYE TO GERMANY." EX-KHEDIVE'S RESOLVE. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, November 9. The Times Cairo correspondent states that the ex-Khedive, who has never recognised his deposition by Britain, has for- | warded his resignation to the Sultan of Turkey because he has quarrelled with the I Kaiser. | The ex-Khedive always maintained excellent relations with the Court at Rome, and was entrusted with delicate negotiations for Italian neutrality. These, however, failed completely. The Kaiser was furious, and refused to see him at Berlin, whereupon the ex-Khedive said he was "tired of political intrigues; good-bye to Germany." i SERBIA'S GALLANT DEFENCE. j GUERRILLA METHODS ADOPTED j HEAVY BULGARIAN LOSSES. THE FRENCH OCCUPY YELES. LONDON, November 9. (Received Nov. 10, at 5.5 p.m.) The news that is slowly filtering through from Serbia shows that the gallant defence of the country continues. With the occupation of Krushevatz the enemy holds another section of the railway to Constantinople and menaces the Serbian retreat towards Montenegro. The Serbian Legation at Rome announces that the Bulgarians lost 80,000 men at Kraljevo. Another important report from Ghevgheli states that the French have occupicd Veles. It is now evident that the Serbians are at many points adopting a guerrilla system of warfare, worrving the enemv. German correspondents point out the difficulties of the advance, owing to the weather and the nature of the conntrv. A small detachment of Serbians hidden in the mountains falls o.n the enemy unexpectedly and disappears with alacrity. The Germans thus„suffer heaw losres, and require to use increasing vigilance.