THE BULGARIAN CAMPAIGN.
AN INTERESTING DESPATCH.
(Australian-N.Z. Cable Asosclation.}. Received January 23, 8.25 p.m. LONDON, January 21.
The Gazette contains a despatch from General Milne describing the important part the British played in the offensive of last September and August against the Bulgarians between Lake Doiran and the Vardar. The British fought sanguinary battles, suffering and inflicting severe losses in their assaults, and dominating elaborately-fortified heights on P Ridge and the Grand Couronne. These battles served their object, which was to pin down the Bulgarian reserves so that they were unavailable to oppose the great FrancoSerbian attack, which burst through and led to the utter defeat of the enemy. The despatch incidentally mentions that when news of the armistice with Turkey was received, iGeneral Milne was actually on the river Maritza, ready to occupy Adrianople, while the First Hellenic Corps was echeloned between Kavalla and Drama, ready to participate in the general advance on Constantinople.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17478, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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155THE BULGARIAN CAMPAIGN. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17478, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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