THE BALKANS WAVERERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4010, 17 August 1915, Page 5

THE BALKANS WAVERERS.

SUCCESS' AT J ) AItD AN ELI J£S IMPERATIVE. INCREASED IMPORTANCE OF THE CAMPAIGN. GERMAN ATTEMPTS TO INTIMIDATE ROUAIAN] A. (Tim cs and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, Aug. IS. "'I lie Times” correspondent in Paris states tliat news of fnrllior sue-ces.-i's at tbo Dardanelles is a.united with great eagerness. It is felt that the Balkan negotiations will be resultless unless the Allies demonstrate, by more- vigor, rcinforcoinents, and ae<tion, not only a determination to force the Dardanelles, but the certainty of success. Various reports indicate that the Cor mans .share this view*. They arc concentrating troops and stores in Tomessvar. Neusat/,, and Orsova regions, presumably with the object of taking the offensive against (Serbia, and with hopes of arriving to aid the Turk's before their resistance at the Dardanelles is overcome. in the circumstance it is felt here that arguments supplied by the Allies' troops in the Dardanelles will have more weight with Bulgarin than those of the Chancelleries.

Newspapers interpret the attempt to cross the Danube at Golubntz as a demonstration to intimidate Roumalun, or the beginning of the attempt i to carry out the plan previously mentioned. The Houmanian Minister of War lists instructed the factories working for the military authorities to prepare a list of niobiiisnble workers with the view of expedition in the execution ol o rtlcrs. BULGARIA’S LOOSE END. XEGO7IATIOXS WITH Tt'RKEY COLLAPSE. (Received Aug. 10, 9.50 p.m.) ‘ PAR!rf, Aug. IG. The “Echo de Paris,” in an inspired Note, .says the Turko-Bidguriun pourparlers. udiieii were intended to render Bulgaria immohde by raising hopes o[ the eos.-iim of the jiusiaeba Pasha and Adrianopio and the iledevgateli ra.iliviiv, have been broken oil. Moreover. it is realise'! iiiar the jiulgarian loan, which the Cerman bank--' declared to have been sue. ribed. is meeting with serious diliicidtic! • SERB 0-0. RAEG 1A tv RE LA- . TIONS. j REMORA UP FRICTION DENJEi). j IMPORTANT AIRY K.M EXT Or j ENEMA' TROOPiS. (Receiver! Aug. 10. 9 p.m.; LONDON, Atm. 10. j The Creek Foreign .Minister and i ihe Serbian Legation deny rumors ol , Seibo-Graeeian differences. and _statc* that the relations of the two countries arc cordial. It is believed that the rumors were instigated in German .sources to make people believe the cession of territory Serbia. was disposed to make to Bulgaria would upset the Graeco-Serbian alliance. It was Imped that the rumors would perhaps precipitate a quarrel between the A Hies. Geneva reports an important movement of Auslro-German troops on the A ustro-S'. rbia n and A.usi ro-R on mania n frontiers. It is believed that action against Serbia is imminent, and the proximitv of troops on the Roumanmn irontier has given rise to a tear pi AustroCernmn action against Boumania. who has called ten class:'' ior the ' (lag. raised four divisions or reserves, and generally taken very serious j measures. i Amsterdam declares that ,40.000 Germans have been transferred from j Wju-'.-iw to the Sei'ho-Lu-garinn front. OUR SPLENDID INDIANS. | STIRRING- REWARD OF BRAVERY. OFFICER’S TEL UNO RECORD. LONDON, August Ho. An officer with the Indian headquarters. describing the Lahore divisions operations around Y’pres on the 26th April, states: The Fortieth Patlians had their first- experience of shell fire when marching round the moat, at South Ypi es. The tinner was particularly heavy. Alany shells fell in the water or hit walls without doing any damage. The men cheered each successive miss. Suddenly a shell was dropped in the middle of the Yusufzai company, which was about the centre of the column. There were twentythree casualties. The regiment moved on unperturbed, with scarcely a pause. The .Tullundur Brigade had three, shells dropped in their midst, hut continued. Asphyxiating gas at fifty yards so affected the eyes as to incapacitate men from using the rifle for some time. During- the advance Colonel Rendinck of the Fortieth was mortally wounded. An adjutant dragged him to a ditch, where ho lay till dusk. His last thoughts were with his regiment. When lie was i placed on a stretcher he said: “Send two of my Patlians with, me. If I die on the way to the hospital I should i like them to be with me.”

A majority of the Fortieth’s machinegun detachment- were hit, and tne guns' held up. A Sepoy, Munktiara, who was sheltering in a small ditch in advance, volunteered to go back to bring up a gun. He had twice to cross a space of 250 yards swept by an enfilade of machine-gun and rifle fire. He succeeded, and returned, under a bail of Inflicts, carrying the gun. A Sepoy, Napikhan. of the 129th Baluchis, volunteered to carry a message under the heaviest shell and rifle fire. He had scarcely gone a quarter of the distance when lie was hit by a hit of shell, and badly wounded. He was almost knocked out, but managed to crawl on and deliver .the message.

Fifty Connauglits, sixty Mancnestors, small parties ,of the Fortieth I’athans and Forty-sevenths, and 129th Baluchis advanced nearly a mile over open ground. With greatly reduced numbers they got within a few yards of the German line, when they met poisonous gas and were half suffocated, yet they held "-round for a terrible twelve hours till reinforcements relieved them. The gallantry of the stretcher-hear-ers in ©very action c’aimot ho too highly praised, whether Sepoy of tho humbler Kahnr, they were never known to shirk danger. ATTITUDE OF GREECE. GERMAN FAB IUCATION EXPOSED. LONDON, Aug. 15. Reuter’s Atlicn’s correspondent reports statements that as differences between M. Venozclos and the King are pure inventions by German sources M. Vonozoles will only expose, his views when the King summons him. HUGE BEEF- ORDER. £20,000,000 INVOLVED. NEW YORK, Aug. 15. A firm of Chicago packers received a cable to furnish an estimate, of . the cost of a million head of American, beef cattle, cash on delivery at Liverpool. It is stated the order will involve twenty million sterling and will reduce the number of cattle in the United States to a minimum.