SERBIAN POSITION.
LONDON, October 21. Colonel Repington, special military correspondent for The Times, writes : There is no doubt that the Serbian army is opposed to superior forces. The AustroGermans have probably 16 divisions and the Bulgarians 16. Serbia has lost 160,000 men in the present war, and another 50,000 by disease. There are now probably 300,000 in the field. The enemy’s superiority is two to one, and greater if the Turks are helping. The situation is not desperate unless the main Serbian army is defeated, but it is serious. The Serbs are defending at the greatest disadvantage, and a crisis cannot long be delayed. The best course for the Franco-British forces to pursue is to hold up the Bulgarian columns at Ishtib and Strumnitza, and thus take the pressure off the Serbians. This assumes that the whole allied force can be delivered at Ghevgeli properly equipped for fighting in difficult country. On this point no information is available.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 24
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