IN THE BALKANS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 830, 7 October 1916, Page 9

IN THE BALKANS.

ALLIED OFFENSIVE. RECONQUEST OF SERBIA. BULGARS DEFENDING MONASTIR Australian aud S.Z. Cable Atsorialion. LONDON, October 6. Mr Hilaire Belloc, in "Land and Wafer," states that there is excellent news of General Sarrail'.i otfensive to reconquer Serbia. The British are threatening the enemy's railway communication between Rupcl and Seres, while the Serbians on the right, the French in the centre, and the Russians on the left continue their advance, and are now within five miles of Monastir, before which the Bulgarians occupy a line of defences. After the Bulgarian counter-attacks were broken, the Serbian advance assumed the character of a pursuit. They have already regained 250 square kilometres of Serbian territory. [Eight kilometres r>|u:il five miles, so that 250 square kilometres is approximately equal to 155 square miles.]