Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-10
VICIOUS ATTACKS MADE
BY BULGARIAN FORCES
British Report Retirements and Ger
mans Claim Capture Of
Ten Guns.
SITUATION ADMITTED GRAVE
King Ferdinand's Men Said to Have
Suffered Heavy Losses-Monte-
negrins Still Put Up Stub
born Resistance.

BERLIN. December 10 (by
wireless to Sayville, N. Y,).-Ac-
cording to information received
in military quarters here, the
Anglo-French expedition in the
Balkans has continued its retreat
and has now entirely evacuated
Serbian territory.
LONDON, December TO-
What seems to be an intimation
that the troops of the entente al
lies contemplate evacuatine
Serbian territory, if they have not
already done SO, is contained in a
statement declared in a Reuter-
dispatch from Saloniki to have
been issued by the French general
staff on the Balkan front.
The statement quoted BY the
Saloniki correspondent is as fol
lows:
I'VE, the French and British
are retiring for reasons easy tc
understand. In view OF the TACT
that the Serbian army for the
moment is out of the reckoning
our presence in Serbian territory
is no longer necessary. Bulgarian
successes amount to an occupa-
ton OF territory no longer dis
puted by us. They have invari-
ably suffered checks each time
the allied troops assumed the
offensive. notwithstanding their
numerically superior forces"
Retirement Proceeding.
The general retirement of the allied
troops is proceeding, the dispatch says
The casualties of the allies since the
fighting Monday have not been consid-
cradle, it is declared,s while the losses
of the Bulgarians are thought to have
been heavy.
In the battle between Bulgarian and
British forces in southwestern Serbia
ten guns were captured from the Brit
ish. the German war office announced.
Bulgarians, ofticered by Germans, are
f1ercely attacking the allies in Mace
donia, according to the Times Saloniki
correspondent, who regards the situa- =
tion as grave. The correspondent says
that series of fierce assaults, by day
and night, have been directed against
the allies right wing from Damir-
kapu to kosturino. These assa ults, the
dispatch adds. have SO far been sue
cessfully beaten off, but the enemy is
parently intends to renew the attacks
with tho object of gaining Strumitza
station, toward which the German cav
airy has been making reconnoissances.
British Forces Retire.
Two successive retirements by the
British forces in the Balkans were Off
cially announced last night. December
the troops were withdrawn to a new
line and December they retired to
another line.
A dispatch to Reuters Telegram Com
pany from British headquarters in
Macedonia, sent under date of Decem-
ber s, says:
..The Bulgarian attacks during the
past two or three days have been more
serious than were originally reported
The Bulgarians show constantly in
creasing strength and seem to be well
supplied with artillery, which keeps up
a constant fire.
Like the Germans, the Bulgarians
deluge their objective. with shell fire
before attacking with infantry.
Hand-to-Hand Fighting.
"since Sunday the British lines have
engaged the principal share of their
attention and before the superior
strength of the enemy our outposts are
gradually falling back to the main
nosition. Some hand-to-hand fighting
has occurred
",rhe few Bulgarian prisoners taken
declare they have no wish to fight
against the entente allies. but are
anxious to meet the Greeks and wipe
out old scores
"As the lines of the entente allies
concentrate upon the Greek frontier,
the problem of the attitude of the
Greek government becomes more and
more acute.
kapu-kapu was iHoSt oFueriy. 1ney
brought away even their stores of hay
and forage"
Comment on Grave Situation.
All the morning newspapers comment
on what-they characterize as the grave
situation of the entente forces in
Serbia. The Saloniki correspondent of
the Chronicle, describing the Bulgar-
ian attacks. says:
Fairly important Bulgarian forces
are engaged in the fighting, which more
resembles that of the previous Balkan
war than the operations now familiar
in France and Flanders. The country
is rough and mountainous and mists
greatly facilitate what is really guer-
rilla warfare. On different occasions a
suddenly lifting mist has left the Bull
garians in a very exposed position
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