SERVIAN CAMPAIGN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1595, 12 November 1912, Page 5

SERVIAN CAMPAIGN.

ENTRY INTO SALONIKA, : THE ADVANCE IN THE WEST. ■'] Belgrade, November 10. The Servians entered Salonika with the Greeks. * Tho Servians' casualties" at Prilip totalled 2500 and the Turkish 6000. The Servians have captured Dibra, 54 miles north-west of Monastic. ,It is reported that Monastir has surrendered. '■■ ■ ' 'Bad roads impede the advance on Durftzzo, the Adriatic port, 52 miles south' of Scutari. ■>'■. •' ' .: ' ■, statement; indignantly denies - the German allegation that Servians riiassacred Albanians, and declares that foreign correspondents ore able to interview and testify as to the humane treatment of Turkish and Albanian patients in the hospitals.. ■The Turks, after the fall of Uskub, were driven from Kuprili towards Tetovo and * .Gostivar, *31 miles from' Uskub, where they made a determined stand, with twenty'battalions and artillery, .in the defence of Dibra, north-westward of Gostivar; Finally, the Servians 1 drove the enemy in headlong flight, capturing their/ guns., . The struggle at Prilip, 24 miles, north-north-east of Monastir,' resembled, -that 1 at Kumanovo. Although tho Servians were more numerous, their task was difficult, the'narrowness of-their advancing lines handicapping, them terribly. The Turks wore entrenohed in an unassailable mountain pass, and- the Servians wero unable to deploy;. They brought only one battery into action. ; The Turk?, protected from the' Servians' terrible shrapnel fire, fought bravely and stubbornly until they were driven out at the point of the bayonet: , I