SERBIANS' MAGNIFICENT DEFENCE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2595, 18 October 1915, Page 5

SERBIANS' MAGNIFICENT DEFENCE

GERMAN ARMY THROWN BACK BULGAR ATTACKS REPULSED Br Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrisM (llec. October 18, 0.10 a.m.) London, October 17. The Serbians up to tlic present have maintained the positions to which they retired ivhen tile Bulgarians' attack necessitated a rearrangement of tlieir plan, of defenco. On Friday night they repulsed two Bulgarian attacks on the fimok front, with heavy losses. Fierce lighting at Doiran also resulted iu a Bulgar set-back.

The "femps's" correspondent at Nish' states that tlie Serbians threw back a German army which was attempting to turn their wing at Semendria. Tho enemy was driven at Godomine .Marthes to tho right bank of the Danube. A Bavarian battalion was hurled into the iiver: ' The splendid fight the Serbians are putting -up against tremendous odds is arousing anxiety in Britain and France as. to whether the Allies' assistance will arrive in time. It is rumoured in wellinformed circles in Paris that Italy is sending 150,000 troops to assist Serbia, and arranging for intervention at a spot where tliere may be a docisive result in the campaign. The Allies are leaving Salonika, on Sunday and going to Ghengeli, Nish, and other towns, which are preparing a great reception for tho Anglo-French troops. Everyone is convinced that tho arrival of a few regiments will so raiso the spirits of the Serbians that they will prove invincible. Official reports from Nish on Saturday evening state that the fighting is of tli'o most terrible character on the whole oftho Austro-German-Bulgar fronts. Great movements of troops aro reported from Turkey. The' forces which were defending Smyrna are being sent to Thrace, while troops quartered in Constantinople, and which had been supplying, men for Gallipoli, are being dispatchedl to defend Varna, Burgas, and Dedeagatch, under German officers.