The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-26
Hanks of Bulgarian Army Threatened by Advance of French Troops From the South
BULGARIAN AND
 TEUTON FORCES
 WIN IN THE NORTH
Germans May Soon Force Passage Through Servia, Though Nations Situa- tiOn Is Not Desperate

London. October 2G.--rhe Buebarcst. Roumnnia, correspondent Of the Times sends the following,
 Scr,ian troops have withdrawn from the ncishborhood of the Danube and the Austrinns have crossed tne river. trnversing the Island of OdakaIe. The Austrian forces now will obtn,u free passage through Bulgaria from ossova where 90 steamers and lighters
 London. October 25.--The Austro- German and Bulgarian campaigns in northern and eastern servia are being cnrried out according to plans. despite fierce servian resistance. and the Hull sars who crossed the Timok and took fr"h"vo areyeseparatcd now from the Germ"ns /who crossed the Danube near orsova by only few miles. hut things are not going so we'll for the invader, In the south.
 Here French troops have joined hands with the Serbs and accor rdinr to French accounts have inflicted n severe defeat on the Buigarians at I<rovoInL. !" miles north of the point where the salcniki-Nish railway crosses the Ser vO-Greek frontier.
 This success places the BuIrurivns who reach Istip. Veics md Uskun i'm m awkward position. for n farther nd s"nce of the allied nrmy would thresten their flnnks. In fact, unofficiat reports say the advance of the French. who are being closely followed by the Bris- ish. already has caused the rctirement
 Teut0ns to Force Passage
 Tho hrst desire of the Germans is to open q route through northea stern Servia and Bulgaria to Turkey and this is on the eve of being accomplished.
 On the other hand, military writers hero do not believe that the position of Servia is so desperate as painted. Ii is serious, but they point out that the Servians have many natural defensive positions in the mountains, in which they can hold out for weeks; that with the British. French and other members of the quadruple powers carrying out their determination to help Servia by rushing endorsements to Sa- loniki, the Bulgars will have warm re- ception and that the Germans and Turks cannot send them much help.
 British correspondents in France have just disclosed the fact made known to them by the British staff that even after the Anglo-French offensive in September. the Germans had great difficulty in get ting endorsements to meet that adven- ture and had to call men Just returned from Russia for rest to m the raps From this it is argued that the Germans cannot spare a great many men for the Balkans. especially as the Russians are keeping them fairly busy from the Baltic to Roumana.
 Italian Front
 The Italian offensive Is compelling the Austrians to strengthen their lines and the French, by the capture today of a strongly fortified salient north of Lemes- nil. in Champagne, have shown that they have not finished their effort to break through. The French success is consid- cred important because the capture of this fortified area clears the ground for an other general offensive In Champagne
 For the same reason the British are trying to force the Germans out of their redoubts and from the slag heaps south of IaBassee. These however. are only preparatory operations, while the Italians are in the midst of a great offensive which already has gained for them many valua- ble vantage points, and according te Rome. may any day place them in pos session of the fortress of Gorizia
 The Rsssans are fighting pitched bat ties in the Riga and Dvinsk regions in an effort to retake ground won from them by Won Hlndenburg last week. Russian attacks southeast of Riga and northwest of Dvnsk have been repulsed. according to the Germans.
 German forces, however. which crossed the Illoukst north of the town of that name. withdrew in the face of a superior Russian army
 It is also claimed by the Germans that Russian attacks in the lake district south of Dvinsk were repulsed and that the Austrians have broken through the Rus sian lines west of komanow over front of more than two and half miles.
 The German campaign in Courland is being interfered with by British and Rus sian submarines which have stopped mer- cantile traffic to the Baltic ports and one of which has sunk the Prinz Adal- bert, the sixth armorcd cruiser lost by Germany since the war began, the others being the Bluecher, Scharnhorst. Gneise- nau and Friedrich Karl