M ACEDONIAN FRONT

Nelson Evening Mail, 20 September 1916, Page 5

M ACEDONIAN FRONT

SERBIAN? REPULSE COUNTERATTACKS ITALIANS FIERCELY ENGAGED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Roc. Sept. 20, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, Sept. 19. The Italians engaged the Bulgaois dn fierce flighting at the foot of Montr-belles. Both sides axe violently cannonading. The Servians repulsed two courater attacks in the Ventriknek sector. The Bulgars have not a/titempted! to counter-attack at Fiorina.. The Waa- Office staites that Salonika reports thlat the British repulsed a night attack eastward of Orh'ak: bridge. Air craft on Monday bombed the camp at Prosenik, apparently with successful results. SERBS RE-ENTER THEIR COUNTRY. FALL OF MONASTIR IMMINENT. lAustralian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Sept. 18. The Serbs secured a- most brilliant success in the Fiorina Valley, and the victorious army re-entered Serbia- after the occupation of the defiles north of Sorovitch. The Bulgarians were unable to defend themselves, the rapidity of the attack not permitting them to reform or reinforce their 'broken line. The dominating heights of_ Fiorina offered such d>isadvanitages owing to the turn ins: movements of the Serbian left that the Bui gars preferred to abandon the town. Thev fled towards Monastir. The fall of that town is only a question of a day or two. The Serbian advance guards are nine miles distant. The Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent savs the Serbs are closely pursuing the Bulgarians towards Monastir. 5 There is a great exodus of Bulgarian families from Monastir. The Bulgarians are sending the archives to TJskub.

A PROMISING TURNING MOVEMENT. Australian and N.Z. Gable Association > ATHENS, Sept. I€. General Cordonnier, who is in charge of the turning movement, has reached Fiorina. He is urging the troops not to give the Bnl<rars a moment to reform on the line of trenches prepared on the plain of Monastir. The arrival of the Serbians at Brod threatens to turn these entrenchments. The Bulgar prisoners are downcast and exhausted. They blame the German officers for the disaster.