Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-21
SERIOUS MENACE
FOR SERB ARMIES
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important SaIoniki Railroad
Now Has Been Cut at
Two Places.
BULGARIAN FORCES
ARE PRESSING ADVANCE
Great Battle Going On on the
Heights of vlassona and
Kotchana.
FOE MARCHING ON usKup
Serbians Fall Back on Point After
Occupation Of Istip and Kotchana.
Rumanian King Threatened
With Uprising.

with Uprising. =
PARIS, October e1.-An off,
cial statement issued at Nish saws
that the Serbian army is now
menaced seriously. The Serbian
war Office says the railroad line to
Saloniki has been cut in two
places. .-.- -
The Athens correspondent of
the Havas Agency sends the fol-
lowing dispatch under yesterdays
date:
"A great battle is going on
on the heights of Vlassona and
Kotchana. The Bulgarian object
seems to be to march on Mona
stir SO as to cut communications
with Saloniki. In the Negotin
region two Bulgarian attacks
have been repulsed.
"The newspapers state that
after the occupation of Istip and
Kotchana by the Bulgarians the
Serbians fell back on Uskup.
The population OF Uskup has left.
Communications between Nish
and Uskup are cut.
"The Bulgarian army is ad-
vancing rapidly on Kumanovo
and Uskup, according to informa-
ton from a Bulgarian source"
Wireless reports received in
Berlin from Sofia say that the
Bulgarians have entered Mace
donian towns.
Allies Awaited Anxiously.
1.-The situation grows more and more
serious" says the Nish official state
ment. THE resistance of the Serbian
troops is desperate and heroic, but the
strong pressure of the Austrians and
Germans from the north and of masses
of Bulgarian from the east is menac-
ing seriously the Serbian army. which
is now cut off from Saloniki. The ar
rival of allied troops is awaited anx-
iously
"The Serbians in the north hold the
Rakhanatz AlexandefovatZ = Daihgolo-
bowl and the Asagna-kosmai lines and
the right bank of the kolonbaza. On
ho hn1 ha
chavi- -KoiatzoyatZ-P -Pirot- Vlassina line,
but the Bulgarians have taken the
towns of Vranya and Volosso, cutting
the line to Saloniki in two places"
This Establishes the fact that the Bull
garians have captured the important
town of Vranya, regarding which
there is some doubt.
French Leave Gievgeli.
French troops guarding the communi-
cations are said to have left Gievgeh in
the direction of Vranya.
The Serbian legation denies that the
Bulgarians have occupied Zajecar. It is
stated that the two forts which the Bull
garians claim to have taken are ancient
works for temporary fortiications which
we're erected in 1915 and which the
Serbians did not consider 1t worth while
to defend, the defenses of Zajecar having
moved to the rear.
Diplomats Delay Departure.
The diplomatic corps at. Nish, Serbia,
after preparing to quit that city for
Monastir. postponed their departure, COM
having been cut with -Sa-
oniki, according to a special dispatch
rom Athens.
Violent Campaign in Rumania.
Dispatches from Bucharest Indicate
hat a violent campaign is being waged
n Rumania over the question of that
Intervention in the war One
If the Bucharest opposition newspa-
,ers, according to the dispatches, has
gone so far as to threaten the king with
popular rising.
Much indignation has been caused in
aumania by the action of the Austrian
authorities at Salzburg in arresting
Cantacuzene. former Rumanian
minister of justice, who was returning
o Bucharest from Paris. whose arrest,
Is alleged, was due to the finding of a
etter in his possession addressed to NJ
'ilipesco, leader of the conservative
'arty in Rumania.
Russian Imperial Manifesto.
PETROGRAD. October 21.-An i'm
erial manifesto declaring war against
bulgaria has just appeared under date
(, October IS. 1t was accompanied by
communication reviewing the friendly
ervices of Russia for Bulgaria in the
asst, and pointing out "the treachery"
( King Ferdinand. This communities
ion says:
when Turkey and Bulgaria were
threatened with war on account of
nancial relations, the Russian gov
rnment interviewed in an hmicable
,anner. Part of the Turkish debt to
.ussia was transferred to Bulgaria.
hereby the latter, on advantageous
onditions. was freed OF all obligations
. Turkey. g..
.Thus having realized for Bulgaria
. actual Independence. Russia further
isalayed Wagpanimity toward the 1ul.