SOFIA PREPARING FOR SIEGE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14742, 22 October 1915, Page 5

SOFIA PREPARING FOR SIEGE.

BULGARS FEAR ROUMANIANS; • ■' ‘ . : Aon ■*. *!*.■■■ " / ■ -V By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright. Received October 22, 8 a.m. p BUCHAREST., October 21. > Reports from Sofia state that the city has been put into a State of defence to resist a siege. The nighbouring chain of bills lias been covered with a network of trenches and barbed wire, the defences having been constructed by German e " S There lias been a rapid concentration of Bulgarians on the Black Sea coast, close to tho■ Roumanian frontier.

BLOCKADE OF BULGARIAN COAST.

REVOLT AGAINST II KDINAND EXPECTED. ' •: . Received October ,22.-8 *,m. -. Mr Martin Donohoe says that tho Russian Consul at wlio has nrrivpd "at Bucharest confirms the news of the Allies’ blockade of the Bulgarian Aegean coast. The enemy is feverishly fortifying the littoral. Ihe Oqnsu considers that the appearance of Russian troops In Bulgaria would be fjie signal for a general revolt of the array and people against King lerdmqnd.

RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN

IMMENSE GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS. EFFORTS TO STOP SLAV WAVE* l Press Association,— Telegraph—Copyright ; PARIS, October 21. M Nandcan, the French correspondent who is at the Russian headquarters, states that the Austro-Germaus are constructing immense fortifications the rear between the approaches to Riga and the DneisteF. A thousand navvies are working day and night around Lem* ■ berg with a view to stopping the blav wave that is how reforming for a westward advance. ENEMY STILL IN DISORDERLY RETREAT. LONDON, October 21. The Russians air-bombed the station at Friedrichshaf. ' ~ . In the region of Dvinsk a German attack was repulsed. ; . , In the region on the left bank of tho Stvr the enemy is' still retreating m dis»rder. . SERHim CALLIM6 UP THE UtFIT. LONDON, October'2l. Germany has revised her system for supplying men for the front. Two million who were previously discarded as unfit will be called up. They will be put through rigorous physical training and given good food and systematical medical' treatment for improving weak sight, strengthening poor chests and stealing bad nerves.—(Times and Sydney Sun Services.)

MORE GERMAN FRI6HTFULNESS/ MALES AT BELGRADE EXTERMINATED, OTHER SHOCKING OUTRAGES. Received October 22, 1.20 p.m. BUCHAREST, October 21. The Servian Minister has protested to the American Minister against the German excesses in Belgrade, where the mala population has been exterminated, while the women have been subjected to the most frightful violence.

FR AKCO-BEL GIAN LA DIES. A PARDON BY THE KAISER. Received October 22, 1.20 p.m. MADRID, October 21. Tlie Kaiser has telegraphed, to King Alfonso announcing, a pardon : to Countess Jeanne De Bello Ville, Madame Tbuliez, and other Franco-Belgians. DESTROYER AS SUBMARINE. Elaborate experiments are being carried out by the Atlantic Fleet assembled it Newport (Rhode Island) to demonstrate the value of paint as a means of concealing or disguising warships. , Recently the torpedo-boat destroyer McDonough appeared off Block Island disguised as a submarine. Black paint had been used over the grey- sides of the destroyer to form the outline of a submarine, arid the'shape of a periscope was painted bn the middle funnel. The illusion was said to have been effective at a short distance. Other warships have been decorated with spots of black', the theory being that it- is much harder ; to make ont their ■-chfci'ncter ; dfirtririce. ! particularly tvhen the- sea Is 1 chVered' with a 1 light haze, -