4 DECEMBER 1915, Page 13

So meagre is the news which comes from the Balkans

as to the French and British forces that it is difficult to form any idea as to their respective positions. As far as we can make out, however, the French, who aro on the highest ground, are finding, as of course are also the Bulgarians, that the winter weather makes any advance very difficult. They are more or less weather-locked. Our troops, on the other hand, in their local theatre of the war, have not yet encountered much trouble in the way of snow and frost.