BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1918, Page 5

BALKANS.

i i [SERBIANS' GREAT ADVANCE. I Kochana Captured. Enormous Quantities of Wai Material, Sofia-Drama Railway Cut. Received Sept- 29, 6.5 p.m. London, Sept. 27. A Serbian communique, issued on the • evening of the 26th, confirms the capture of Islitip. The Serbian cavalry, pursuing the enemy, entered ICoehana. A great number of additional Bul ; garians and Germans' were taken pri" soner, and enormous quantities of war materials captured, including several military trains. The Serbian cavalry advanced 120 kilometres (about 74 miles) as the crow flies northward of the line whence tire offensive started-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. A Serbian communique, dated the evening of the 27tli, states;— Our troops, on the 2Gth, entered Veles, where wo prisonered the garrison. Our advance to-' wards Uskub continues. We also progressed considerably beyond Kochana, ■ taking an enormous additional number of prisoners, mostly Gel-mans, also large quantities of material, including itia-chine-gnns. Three mountain guns wore captured.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc- and Renter. 1 ./<' Received Sept. 29, 5:5 p.m. London, Sept. 28. < The Serbians are trying to cut the Sofia-Drama railway.—Aus.-KZ. OaMe Assoc; VARDAR RAILWAY CLEARED* Germano-Bulgarians Flung Back, Italian-Albanian Forces Joining, Received Sept. 29, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 28. A French Eastern communique states: The Allies, unremittingly advancing' northwards, completely cleared the Vardar Tailway, and the Monastir-<Prilep* Gradsko Road. The British captured the town of Strumnitza. The Serbian cavalry, by a bold push eastwards from Ishtip, captured the town of Kochana. The Serbian armies have reached Earbinski, north of Ishtip, and are now attacking the town of Veles, which is defended by p. German Jaeger battalion with disorganised Bulgarian elements. The Allies, advancing from Prilep, flung back the left wing of the Eleventh Germano-Bulgarian army on the mountain region west of Krushevo. The Italians have already reached the neighborhood of Krushevo. Received Sept. 29, 5-5 p.m. British official (Salonika): —ThedJrifc'ish troops, preceded by Yeomanry, entered Strumnitza on Thursday mornings while the Anglo-Greeks stormed thei heights of the Belashitsa mountains!.: The British have taken thirty Aui.-N.Z. OaMe Assoc. and Renter,, !

FURTHER CAPTURES. The Position Reviewed. New York, Sept. 27, The British have captured Stroll-' nitza, which opens the door to an ex-' tensive invasion of Bulgaria.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asose. New York, Sept. 27. The Serbians have captured Kotschpa. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. ■London, Sept. 27. General Maurice writes:. Noyr that the French 'have occupied Prilep, and the Serbians captured the Popadiya ; mountains which are along the mam heights of the Babuna range, and control Veles, the Ist Bulgarian Aripy , under General Jesof can only retire. on the ' one road to Kvitclievo, ivhieh is completely separated from the rest of the Bulgarians by the Kradmitge mountains. The Bulgarians can only retire if the centre group, which is retiring in disorder before the Serbians, manages to check the advance in the Vardar Valley and covers Uskub. The Serbians are already considerably nearer Uskub than General Jesof's army, and, if tho Ser-' bians get there first, the army will bo i cut oft' altogether from the railway and .; will have to find a new way through | the mountains as best they can without prospects of being supplied with food $ and munitions. We may be certain | the enemy is doing everything to rush | up troops to cover Uskub. _ |: The advance is pregnant with possl- J bilities. The Serbians are able to | fight well on ratious which would mean | starvation to the British, but must liavq ? ammunition. We must remember they | are already a long way from their.rail" | way.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. ' J;

THE LATEST NEWS. jj ■)>... Anglo-greeks moving awsq THE STEUMNTTZA. Received Sept. 30, 1.15 a.m, London, Sept. jKS, evening. British official: —The Salonika vance continues. s >, The Greeks are pushing .eastwards along the Belachista range, oni the Anglo-Greeks are moving on Petrify. , along the iStrumnitzi Valley.—At&v NZ. Cable Assoc. and Renter. Received Sept. 30, 1.15 a.m. [London, Sept. 03. A .Bulgarian communique of September 26 states that Bulgarian units westward of the Vaxdar continue a movement northward, according to plan.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Renter. Received Sept. 30, 1.15 a.m. London, Sept. 28. A Greet; communique states that the Greeks reached Voles ridgu nr.J otwttpied the road debouching tliefefrom to tho northward of Lako Doiran -.Aus.-N.Z Cable Assoc. and IReut'u'