The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-02
Frerch and Bulears at Grips
Fierce fighting eaturins
See-saw OF forces
OUTER FORTS OF
hi H b0MDARDED
IN tiand-tc-Iland Fight on y ar.
dr. ttiver trcLch Drive bull.
gars INTO Swaep.ng / lood
and Many Are LI.wnSQ

Loihicn. Not f.--hragaieyac,
inc S.'.ti ,sGrG!an al stsi,stt 4..s,
fatich neaose Int Go. lnis.i~. a.
uiii2 10 all o.dc.;i .,ilno au.,-
LAeLt iiA:.ue al :-.riih To-Day.
DifeI.is Vcst .. .Iagapsac,
The ,.cfnaEs. after taknl-s ..i,ia-
noNac. are pressing soutu and nu-
ncuIR-c the capture. tuc ,.eIgii.S
oi the towii. ana ,rivusoso
Mountain. In the taptui 4 Oh Tue
he.Snus several ndi,u.y'i .,cruG,i.s
were taken prisoners.
The Overseas News Agency at Esf-
lin announced TO-DAY that me J;itsF
.orts OF Alsh are now updei boni-
oardlaent ny the Bulsarian aiti ,ery
advancing from knIa Aehats aud
I'ieuot.
The Bulgar1ans attempted .esler-
day to throw the French troops out
of their northernmost positions based
on krivoiak, OH the Nai',iaf Ei.er.
twelve miles south Of lstip. AT the
Bulgarian approach. frcMeh advanced
detachments scouting in the direction
of kupriN Withdrew III klafolak. and
here Il division of French troops
awaited the attack. Three attempts
were made by the Bulsars 10 carry the
position by Storm but the French ar-
,illery on the TANKS caught them In
a cross fire. while the infantry
poured IN heavy rifle fire from the
'front.' The Bulgars hesitated under
the fire and the French, taking adj
vantage of the MON antavy halt. leapcd
from the trenches aud drove the Btll-
"a rlaus into tsss Nardat
Recent rain have added 10 Tie
depth and curreu, of TIE river am
many of the Burglars were dFow nea.
French NctiFc.
dtSratGb from s%4ipntEa tariS
SANS the French have retaken the
Kotchanic Pass ani have driven the
Bulgariana our OF the district sssr-
rounding kuprilj the town and rails
road still remaining N the hand Of
the RuIgars
The town was captured b. The Bill-
gars on October -, vas retakea BY
the serblans tive days later, aud ~
nally MAS taken a second time by the
Bulgara. who still hold it. Conffri1ihA
tion of tho second loss of the town
was made Officially yesterday Accord
ing to an Athens dispatch. The town
is twenty three mics southeast OF
Cskuh.
A CORES pendent at Athens telsgtaphs
that the British eXpedtonary force
has had its flrst engagement on tho
Glove eli pocian front. near strun-
nitxa otf7eial news Of the opera tons
of the British force is still lacking. hit
its present position would /, 3irate that
the allies intend making A strong
counter move against Bulgaria from
the southwest. With Struuaaif1s as
their FIRST goal 10 further ness has
been received IT the Russian forcc,
estimated At sno DOE men, which IA
supposed to be trA ing 10 effect land.
ing on The Bulgarian Black sea coast.
Regiment Destroyed.
eSTThe Corriere Della Sera, of MILAN,
prints a dispatch from Bucharest say
ing that the Third Bulgarian Infantry
Regiment was DESTROYED with the ex-
ception Of only nifty men in the des.
perate dghting between the Bulgarians
and the Serbians in the Tir1ok Valley.
The correspondent adds that he wound
ed fill the public building and barracks
at Widen, Bulgaria. He safes that co.
oco Serbans from the zone of war
have taken refuge in Rumania.
A Havas Agency dispatch from
Athens quotes a Constantinople report
to the effect that the first division OF
Turkish reservists has been withdrawn
from the Ciallipoli Peninsula and sent
to Bulgarian Thrace.
a Sofa dispatch received here today
by way OF Berlin and Copenhagen says
that 10000 French and eeeo0 British
troops already have been. landed vt
Salonica and that the emharkats0n
continues