ALLIES AT WORK IN SERBIA

Otago Witness, Issue 3214, 20 October 1915, Page 22

ALLIES AT WORK IN SERBIA

SEVERE BULGARIAN REPULSE MACKENSEN APPEALS EOR REINFORCEMENTS GREECE’S EQUIVOCAL POSITION

WHAT THE ALLIES MUST DO. PETROGRAD, October 11. Colonel Nadeau (French military attache) has interviewed an officer formerly in Bulgaria, who said that the Allies must come in overwhelming force from Salonika, and be prepared to meet 400,003 Bulgarians. The latter are as good fighters as the Germans. Many of them were born in Macedonia, which they are determined to reconquer. He estimates that the Allies must send 300,000 men, as a small army would undergo the peril of being swamped. He recommends the Allies to sicken the Bulgarians at first by a plentiful shower of shells. GIVE SERBIA A CHANCE. PARIS, October 11. The Serbian Minister declares : “If the army we expect from the Allies allows us to devote ourselves against our assailants from the north, we will fight without uneasiness, and oppose the invaders again victoriously.” A Serbian officer says : “If the Allies look after the Bulgarians, we shall go into battle singing.” A NEW CRY. LONDON, October 11. The German newspapers, officially inspired, are raising a new cry that Germany’s real objective is not Calais but Constantinople. With one voice they proclaim that the capture of Belgrade is one of the greatest successes of the war. The Berliner Tageblatt and Berliner Zeitung state that the public have been for too long accustomed to the wrong idea that the war will be decided at Calais. They now find that Britain is more vulnerable in the Balkans, and military Powers like Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Bulgaria are not going to be bullied into obedience by England and her American servant because England is temporarily Mistress of the Seas. LIBERAL HELP. PARIS, October 12. Le Temps states that France and England have already assumed the whole of the burden at the Dardanelles, and must in the Balkans receive liberal help from Russia and Italy.