The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-19
Rn1Io-French Drive For Relief
Of Balkan Ally Throws Back
EuIgars But Progresses Toe
Slowly To Materially Help
TEUTONIC EXPEDITION
IS ENClRCLING ENEMY
Great Italian Army Is Expected
soon To Enter Conflict In
Levant But In Meantime Army
Of King Peter May Be Wrecked
ASSOCIATED Press by Federal wirolosso

CAssociated Press by Federal wirClessD
r ONION, November While the
Anglo French drive for the rclict
~ II the SGrbiaus operating I'M
Southern Serbia is succeeding in throw
ing back the Bulgar attempting to hot"
the Vardar Valley, the advance is he
ing made at too slow rate to ma
tprial.y hep and the position of tn
Serbs in the south is even more des
perate than those operating in the
center against the Bulgarians and still
holding out against the TeutOnic Oc
cupation of Northern Serbia.
The Bulgarians have been again de
feated falling back from their posi-,
tions on the tiCeVO heights with
loss of four thousand men and having
to abandon their campaign to the west
Of KrivOIak, hut their army which had
adv anced south from Uskub toward
Monastir is making rapid Roadway and
the SOrhians have been unable to eff
feet the expected juntiOn with the
French.
French Driving Northward
The situation in Southern Serbia
shows the French driving north alOnk
the eastern side Of the dividing noun
tain range, defeating the Bulgarians
wherever they make a stand, with the
Serbiaps falling back TO the south on
the western side of the mountains.
Through Nish AustrO-German rein
fOreements are being hurried to the as
sistance of the Rulgarians and it is eX.
pected that the Anglo.French soon will
be fronting Austro-Germap troops in
the heart of Serbia.
Reinfofe erhents for the Allies are oil
so expected soon in the form of a large
Italian army, information having come
from Rome that a large force of ltai
ians is now aboard transports and near
ing Salonika, where it will be LANDED
and despatched across Greece, portion
to go to the assistance of the Serbian'
at Monastir anil the rest to he ATTACHED
to the Anglo French expeditions invad
ing Bulgaria and attempting to recap
ture Veles and Uskuh.
Bulgars Drive Serbs Back
By gaining the Bubuna Pass, south
west of Uskub, the BulgaTians have
been able to drive the Serbian south
ern army back, cutting off any posi-
bility of its escape except through re
treating into Greece or into Southern
Albania. A Reuter- despatch from Ath
ems announces that the Bulgar advance
in this region has reached Philips, only
thirty miles north o. the third Serbian
war capital of MOnastir. so threaten
ing is the situation for the capita
that all the foreign cOusuls except tn
consul for France have left for SaiO
nika.
An Exchange Telegraph report from
SalOnik tOu tho news Of the lBul
garian occupation Of l'rllrps,
In the north the Serbian forces ar
almost CnrOmpaASrd, and, although
fighting desperately and making eacI
advance of the Au 'tro Germans AS cost
" and bloody as possible. tn" eseap
of this forre appears impossible.
Tel tons Are Reinforced
The Tcutons are slowly drawing il
their circle of steel, the strength eVi
denced in their latest costly attacls up
on the mountain positions Of the Serb
showing that rcinforc"mcnts have bee
drawn from some of the other fronts
The Monternccrins, after having driv
en- back an Austrian attack, have take
advantage Of the for's disrOmfitur
to withdraw towards their own bound
aries. In the recent fighting the Mon
tenegrins took number of Austria
prisoners.
so far the troops Of King NichOla
have been holding II lin" in Centra
Serbia along the White Drin and lab
Rivers, from north Of JavOk to tn
boundary Of the San jak, cOmmandin
the railroad north from Uskub to NJ
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