Evening star., 1915-11-11
GEN. BOYADJIEFF'S ARMY
TAKES 1000 PRISONERS
Berlin Says Bulgars Have Crossed
Morava River at Several
Points.
TRENCH DO NOT HOLD vELEs
Monastir Believed Safe for Time Be
ing, But Condition of Panic Has
Prevailed in Threat
ened City.

| LoNDoN, November ll.-ll
is unoficially reported that both
wings of the Bulgarian forces in
vading Macedonia are menaced
by the Anglo-French advance,
while the Serbians are said to
have resumed the offensive in the
region OF Babuna pass. where
they recently won an important
success. The Serbians are max
ing a stand there, and it is also
reported that they have estab-
lished complete communication
with the French.
This report, if true. insures the
temporary safety OF Monastir,
where a condition approaching
panic has been prevailing. Mon
astir has large Bulgarian popu-
lation, and it was feared some Of
the inhabitants might join the
bands of Bulgarian irregulars
which on several occasions lately
have threatened the city.
Bulgarian troops commanded
by Gen. Boyadjieff have crossed
the Morava river, in Serbia, at
several places, according to the Of
fetal statement issued today at
German army headquarters in
Berlin. In the mountains south
OF the western Morava, the state
ment adds, 1000 Serbians have
been made prisoners.
Bulgars Retire, Is Claim.
A dispatch from saloniki under date
of Wednesday says:
THE Bulgarians have retired from
Babuna and have concentrated before the
French front around Cerna in a heavy
fog that has prevented operations for
the last twenty-four hours.
| THE Serbans are attacking Katchanek
from the north and have captured >the
station.
| 'Tetovo has changed hands several
times in violent fighting. 1t is now held
by the Bulgarians.'
Veles Not Yet Occupied.
Dispatches from Saloniki published in
the morning papers here under date Of
Tuesday evening deny positively that
Veles has been occupied by the French
| They give a circumstantial story of the
manner in which that report became cir
| culated.
| "A small French cavalry force" SAYS
! one dispatch, penetrated the Bulgaria n
| lines near Veles. but failed actually to
i enter the town. A misunderstanding of
the naturs of a cavalry raid led the
Serbian official at Gievgeli to send out
a telegraphic message that Veles had
\ been occupied"
been raiding in the vicinity of Veles
succeeded in firing a Bulgarian NUM-
| tions depot and then left, it is said 1t
| is explained that the Bulgarians at
| Veles feared the cavalry was the van
guard Of larger force and temporarily
evacuated the city.
| Operations in Serbia.
News from the Serbian front is
vague. says a Reuter- dispatch from
! Athens, but 1t Is declared to be untrue
that the Germans are occupying the
entire line from Kralievo to Kraguye-
vatz and Petrovac. Important Serbian
forces arriving from Mitrovitza have
reached the Kutchanik def1le, where
they occupied the railway station to
which the Bulgarians, bound from Us
kup to Prisrend. had advanced.
| Operations extending to the north
western front now are becoming the
key to the situation. as Serbian troops
sent from the north to krusevo and
Monastir will pass there.
| The Serbian government has been re-
moved to Krusevo, east of Perlepe.
Situation at Monastir.
| MILAN, via London. November IL
The Secolo's correspondent. who has re-
turned to Saloniki from Monastir. Ser
bian Macedonia, says the situation
there is regarded as most critical. AL
ready several bands of comitadjis Cir
Iregulars) have penetrated the city and
extraordinary precautions are regarded
as necessary to prevent uprisings
Iamong the city's Bulgarian population
which numbers over 5000.
Monastir, the correspondent adds. is
entirely cut off from communication
with Serbia, and the Bulgarians also
jhave succeeded in cutting communica-
tions with the French forces to the
eastward. The population of the city
has been reduced to $4,000 from 10000.
i Precarious Along Railway.
THE French CONSUL" says the corre-
spondent. appealed to the French midi
Itary authorities to send two regiments
Ito Monastir. but the commander re-
fused to divide his forces. The situa-
tion along. the railway. is SO. precarious
THAT the railroad manaEement allows