The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-21
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UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
SOFIA (via Berlin and London)
Nov. IS. (deIayed)-After forcing the
French to retreat from Gradsko and
NfkodIm, south Of Veies. giving them
access to the mouth Of tho Tzsrna
river, the sulgarlans took important
strategicaI positions today on the
road 40 Prilep.
The BuIgar victory also opened tho
road to MonastIr.
Bulgarian detachments are march
Ing also on PrIstlna to attack the
Serb detaeFaments In tho north. They
arc now only about ten miles distant.
The southern Serb army's center
has been pierced and 1900 Serbs,
twenty-five Of their cannon, twenty
two carloads Of ammunition and q
900 rifles were captured. Tho Bull
earIan forces found thirteen Serb can
non hidden under bridge at Alex
sandro and threw them into the Mol
dava river.
The French, retreating from We
les, were In such disorder that they
threw away their rifles and equip
ment.
1.-THE Sofia dispatch OF November
Is, though belated, is the first def
mite information that the French, who
were pressing the Bulgars hard at
Weles and seemed likely to take the
town a few days previously, have suf-
fered a heavy reverse in southern
Serbia Gradsko is nearly twenty
miles southeast Of Veles at the point
where the Tzerna empties into the
Vardar river.1
IT'S NOT TOO LATE.
[By Wilbur n. Forrest, United Press
staff Correspondent
LONDON, Nov. 20.-By coming TO
the rescue In sufficient force wthln
four weeks, the allies can yet save
Serbia, declared Serbian Minister
Boskovitcz tonight. "she Is not lost
forever" he added, sand will not be
lost II the allies help u.s."
s aOffnIaI advices m fun, confirming
earlier stories Of the rnassacres
the invaders are perpetrating, and the
devastation wrought In tho territory
they have traversed, have Just
reached the minister.
III am not so much concerned az to
the military situation" he said, "for
that, have already explained, can
be retrieved, as over the pitiabIe
plight Of the wretched Serbian peo-
pie.
"Those who have found refuge In
Greece are receiving protection and
organized aid under the direction Of
Princess Demidoff, wife Of the Rus
sIan minister at Athens, but the con-
dition Of those In Montenegro and A.
bania Is hopeless unless relief comes
to them speedily from the outside
world"
1000 RULGARS KILLED.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 20
Four thousand Rulaars were killed
and 1000 wounded In their three days
battle with the Serbs, south of Teto-
vo, according to advlces received here
from Austrian sources tonight. The al
lies are holding their own against
BuIear attacks on the Vardar river
and around StrumnItza, the same ac-
counts stated.
The Tetovo fight was the one
which preceded the BuIgars advance
southward on PriIep and Monastir
and, despite their losses, was won by
them.
The fighting has wavered on the
Varcar river, but at latest accounts,
the British and French were on the
offensive about Strumnitza, trying to
take the town.
LAST OF SERBS.
VIENNA, (via Amsterdam and Lon
don) Nov. 2o.-The last Of the Serb
military forces were driven from Old
Serbia Friday, announced an officiai
statement issued tonight. The cap
ture Of 1000 more Serbs by the troops
under General koevess, one Of Mar
shal Won Mackensen's lieutenants,