BALKAN CAMPAIGN.
DESPATCH BY GENERAL' MILNE. HOW ARMISTICE SAVED TURKEY Australian and N.Z.. Cable, Assn. and. Reut^r."".-'. _•, ' Received 7.4.5 p.ni'.,; Jan."'23rd, LONDON, Jan. 21. , The Gazette contains a despatrh from General describing' H,o important part the British i-layoJ in the offensive last' September ap.s:nst the, Bulgarians between. Lfi'io" DiiM'.in and the Vardar. The British fought sanguinary battles on the 18th and 19th of September, suffering and inflicting severe losses in assaults on tine dominating. and elaborately fortified heights of P Rid>re and Grand Couronne. These battles served th*'r object, which was to pin dovn the Bulgarian reserves so that Ihpy we-3 unavailable to oppose the'- preat Franco-Serbian attack which burst tlivough and loci to tho utter defeat; of the enemy. Tho despatch incidentally nisnt'oas that when the news of the nimhtice with Turkey was received Gcnsr-il Milne was actually on the river Maritzn, ready to occupy Adrianop'e, wlhile the First Hellenic Corps was escholoned between Kavalla and Drama, ready to narticipato in a general advance on Constantinople.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16715, 24 January 1919, Page 7
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167BALKAN CAMPAIGN. Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16715, 24 January 1919, Page 7
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