BRILLIANT SERBIAN VICTORY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2881, 20 September 1916, Page 5

BRILLIANT SERBIAN VICTORY

ARMY RE-ENTERS SERBIA WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE OF MONASTIR Australiaa-Jlew Zealand Gable Association. (Rec. September 19, 6.45 p.m.) London, September 18. Tie Serbians have secured a most brilliant success in the Fiorina Valley, and their victorious army has re-entered Serbia. After the occupation of the defiles north of Sorovitch the Bulgarians were unable to defend themselves, as the rapidity of tho attack did not permit them to re-form or reinforce the broken line. Tho dominating heights of Fiorina offered such disadvantages, owing to the turning movementof the Serbian left, that the Bulgars preferred to abandon their own and fled towards Monastir. The fal' of the town, is a question of a day or two. The Serbian advance guard's are nine miles distant. Athens, September 18. General Oordoiinier, who.is in charge of the turning movement, reached Fiorina, and is-urging on the troops so as not to give the Bulgars a moment to re-form on the line of trenches they had prepared on the plain of Monastir. Tho arrival of tho Serbians on the Broda threatens to turn these entrenchments. The Bulgar prisoners are downcast and exhausted 1 , and 1 blame their Gorman officers for the disaster.. FRENCH OFFICIAL' COMMUNIQUE. (Reo. September 19, 8.20 p.m.) London, September 19. A French official communique from Salonika states:—"The Serbian curtain of machine-gun fire at Vetrenik subjected the counter-attacking Bulgarians. to heavy losses. Tho Serbians are pursuing their advance further west, ancl despite the difficulties of the ground, dashingly captured tho pow-orfully-organished Bulgarian first line on tbo Kajmackalan crost. A coun-ter-attack was repulsed. "Tho battle on the Rosna-Florina front was waged fiercely the whole of Sunday night. Large Bulgarian forces, after a desperate but futile resistance, and vainly-multiplied counter-attacks, and cavalry charges, . were defeated, and tho French carried Fiorina at ten o'clock in the morning." GREEK TROOPS IN THE BATTLE. ■ (Rec. September 19, 8.20 p.m.) London, September 19. ' The "Daily TelegrapnV' 'Athens correspondent states that the first regiment of Greek■ Salonika volunteers, under a Greek officer, Colonel Gravani, participated in the turning movement in the fighting at Exsisu, south of Fiorina, and received the French commander's praise. BULGARIAN EXODUS FROM MONASTIR, i (Rec. September 19, 7.20 p.m.) London, September 18. The "Daily Chronicle's" Athens correspondent, states that the Serbs are closely pursuing tho Bulgarians towards Monastir. Thero is a great exodus of Bulgarian families from Monastir. The Bulgarians are sending their archives to TJskub. THE BATTLE ON THE DOBRUJA GALLANT FIGHTING BY SERBIAN DIVISION. _ London, September 18. Reutor's Agency at Odessa states that a'Serbhn division in the early fighting in tho Dobruja repulsed eighteen attacks by the Germans and Bulgarians round Bayona, and by German cavalry, who tried to take tho Serbians in tho rear, after three hours' fighting at close quarters. The enemy lost five thousand men. RUSSIAN OPINION ON THE SITUATION. ■' ' I ■ ' . . London, September 18. ' The "Daily News" correspondent at Petrograd says that Von Hindenburg, believing the south-eastern section to be the most critical, is himself taking command in Transylvania and the Carpathians, and is sending every available man to tho front, making the enemy's forces in the south-east 1,500,000, of which. 300,000 are Germans, distributed amongst the weakened allies. Military critics at Petrograd are of the opinion that Von Mackcnsen's decisive victory in the Drobuja is mythical, and that really the Allies, being opposed by superior numbers, retired to stronger positions, the rearguards inflicting the heaviest losses. ■••' GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. .. (Rec. September 19, 4.30 p.m.) London, September 18: A German official communique states: "The Russo-Rumanian forces, after ; a three days' retreat, lave taken up a position on a line from Rasova to Cobadin, and on to Tuzla, wlere they have been, reinforced." GERMAN PRESS ACCOUNT OF ALLEGED VICTORY.' London, September 18. The "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Amsterdam states that the "Yossische Zettung" alleges that a German division east of Silistria drovo. back tho Rumanians on the Russians, and simultaneously the Bulgars' and Germans outflankod the Russians aud Rumanians on the right and drove in the Serbians. Thus Von Maekensen's line has formed a loop, forcing-tho Russians and Rumanians to withdraw. RUMANIANS' PROGRESS IN TRANSYLVANIA (Rec. September 29, 11.25 p.m.) ' Amsterdam, September 19. An Austrian official communiqiio states: "The enemy entered Koesalom, northward of Fogaras (east of Hcrmannstadt),. without fighting." THE TREACHERY AT KAVALA KING CONSTANTINE'S CONGRATULATIONS. ' (Rec' September 19, 7.20 p.m.) London, September IS. A wireless message from Romo states that King Constantino has tele* graphed to the. commander of the Greek Fourth Army Corps congratulating him on his patriotism. Further groups of Greek soldiers have applied to the Bulgarians for a transfer to Germany.' LTHE NEW GREEK CABINET , BRITISH MINISTER'S OPINION :■ "NOT SATISFACTORY." Athens, September IS. Sir F. E. H. Elliott, British Am bassador, interviewed by the "Neas Hellas' \ on tho new situation, staled that the Calogeropoulos Ministry, was certainly not satisfactory. • AN IMMEDIATE GENERAL ELECTION' (Rec. September 19/7.20 p.m.) ' London, September 18. A wireless message from Rome states that the Greek Cabinet, has resolved upon an immediate general eleotion. ' ""