WITH THE FRENCH FORCES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16543, 17 November 1915, Page 5

WITH THE FRENCH FORCES

A DOCTOR'S TESTIMONY. BULGARIANS MURDER WOUNDED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, November 15. A French medical officer with the forces says : We departed from Salonika for the Serb front on the morning of October 18, and arrived at Strumnitza in pouring rain and oceans of mud. A Serbian troop train was rushing northward of the Strumnitza- basin between the mountains and the Vardar railway line. We had to pass by a defile of houses that were given up to the Serbian soldiers at Cestovo. On the 21st the Bulgar artillerymen stated they ,saw shells falling on Valandovo when returning from Strumnitza. The intense firing barred the high road, and , we returned to the woods. The villages were deserted, and numerous fugitives and barefooted women were fleeing. It was a horrible spectacle, as they were overburdened, with their belongings. We saw in a Serbian cemetery 200 newly-made graves. The Serbian wounded were all massacred by the Bulgaxs. Later the Bulgars strongly attacked them., and there was a serious struggle. The wounded arrived from everywhere.

IN PERSIA. BRITISH NEARING BAGDAD. LONDON, November 15. Letters received show that the British were at Azigeah, within 40 miles of Bagdad, some weeks ago.

AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL KEPORT. j LONDON, November 15. ! (Received Nov. 16, at 9.25 p.m.) An Austrian communique states : The pursuit of the Serbians continues. The Bulgarians have captured 8500 prisoners and 12 guns. . j MONTENEGRIN REPORT. | REPULSING THE ENEMY. ! LONDON, November 15. j (Received Nov. 16, at 9.25 p.m.) A Montenegrin communique states : We repulsed the enemy everywhere, except at Vishegrad, where we were compelled to fall back upon better positions. ; THE CONQUEST OF EGYPT. ; TUROO-GERMAN EXPEDITION. : PREPARATIONS IN ASIA. MINOR. LONDON, November 15. (Received Nov. 16, at 9.25 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph's Rome correspondent states that Turkish priests are preaching the conquest of Egypt in Tunis, Libya, Morocco, the Caucasus, and India. They are also proclaiming the Kaiser as a messenger of Mohammed. The Kaiser is mentioned in the Koran, in which he is called Muhub-ul-Islam. A great expedition is being organised against Egypt. Preparations have been begun in Asia Minor, where German engineers and officers have arrived. Negotiations are in progress, aiming at securing the co-operation, of Abyseinia.