THE BALKANS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144856, 7 December 1915, Page 3

THE BALKANS.

GERMANS WITHDRAWING TROOPS FOR USE ELSEWHERE. (Received Dec. 7, 8.50 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Dec. 6. Telegrams declare that as the Austrians and Bulgarians are able to defeat the Anglo-French in Serbia tho L. er ' mans are -withdrawing and proceeding to other fronts. GREEK TREACHERY. FRESH HOSTILITY TO ALLIES. LONDON, Dec. 6. Dr. Dillon, writing from Homo, says that there is consternation at Greece s refusal to giro the Entente the guaiautees required, and tno conviction tli.it the Allies’ prospects of success ate vanishing, is growing throughout Greece. Eloquent appeals to the national interi cst are now useless, unless stiffened by an irresistible military and naval torce. Ihe Greens are quicic to silt bniti from business, ami do not believe that the Allies ate capable of sweiviug from tuoir policy of hesitancy in council and driblets in miniaiy moasui.s. If the Allies sent four hundred thousand men to the Balkans might gain a million, including Serbians hunched and liftv thousand and Greece 3 ami Roumaula’s forces. The Allies ought to deploy a loicc. on an impressive scale. This policy of pin-pricks is , merely mischievous. Tho Central Nows correspondent _at ! Paris says that Greece continues iraj niKh'ntly to oiler to rc-enibark our men under the protection of Greek troops. 1 Tho Allies have replied to tho latest ! Grech Note, formulating fresh proposals. which Greece is considering. . .Alaiiy Serbians have entered Greece, : and have a it boon Jo,armed, i It is reported that the .Austrian ' armies have concentrated at Nish. I RAILWAY PARTIALLY RESTORED. LONDON, Dec. 3. Sofia officially announces that tho Nisli-Sofia railway has been restored. It is noteworthy that the Nish to Belgrade I lino is still cut. ; General Mackensen has issued a proclamation to Serbia, seeking to gain the, goodwill of the people whoso country has been laid waste. He declares: — “Wo havo boateai tho Serbian army, and will continue to fight them as long as they resist, but we are not fighting the Serbian people, whoso lives and property aro safe.” Hu recommends refugees to return to their homes, resume their business, submit to military orders, and thus enable the Germans to help them regain thoir former prosperity'. _ Salonika messages indicate that Bulgaria is tiring of war. Socialists and peasants from the interior made a demonstration before iho Royal Palaco at Sofia. Tho police dispersed them, killing and wounding several. Thero are 2-10,000 Bulgarians m tho field, and there is some'unrest amongst them, as they fear the non-fulfilment of tlio promise that they would bo allowed to return to thoir homes at Christinas. It is believed that tho Auatro-Gor-mniis in Serbia now number 70,000. The Vossiche • Zeitung estimates tho Anglo-French on tho Balkan® front at 80,000, in strongly defended positions at Kentping and the Vardar Pass. Near Krivolak tho Bulgarians vainly endeavoured to dislodge tho Allies from their positions. At Doirau the Allies bombarded and destroyed r Bulgarian battlement. A GERMAN REPORT. LONDON. Dec. 5. A Gorman communique states. —We captured several hundred prisoners in tho fighting near Plovljo. The Bulgarians arrested tho Serbians, who were retreating south-west of Prizrend, defeating them and capturing over a hundred guns, and great quantities of war material, including two hundred motorears. Tho authorities at Monastic cordially received tho entry of tho Gorman and Bulgarian detachments.