Evening star., 1915-11-13
INVADERS DEFEATED
IN SUPAG0RA DISTRICT
Allied Cavalry Raids Said to Have
Cleared Ground Between
Krivolak and Veles.
GERMANS REPORT GAINS
Teutons Said to Have Crossed Jastre-
bac Mountain Range-Whole-
sale Desertions in Serbian
Armies. Says Berlin.

= LONDON, November IS.-The
entire Bulgarian force operating
west of Nardar has been endan-
gered by simultaneous offensives
undertaken by Serbian and
French troops, according to ad
vices from the front received here.
The Serbs have retaken the Of
fensive in the Supagora district,
and are reported to have defeated
the Bulgars at katchanik pass,
inf1icting such heavy losses that
the invaders were demoralized.
Two French cYalry raids are
said to have cleared the ground
between krivolak and Neles.
British and French reinforce
ments are arriving at Saloniki in
force, and are being sent imme-
diately into Serbia.
Continuing their pursuit OF the
Serbian army in the district
southeast of Krusevac, the Ger
man forces have crossed the
astrebac mountain range, accord
ing to an official statement given
out today by the German army
headquarters in Berlin. More
than I.Ioo SerbianS were made
prisoners yesterday and one can
non was captured.
The latest Serbian official COM
munication, the first received
since last Monday, shows that the
Serbians on the 10th had not
been cut off between Kralievo and
Nish. An Italian newspaper dis
patch said there were grounds for
fear that such was the case.
Serbs Deserving, Is Claim.
Wholesale desertions from the Serb
ian army on the part of the troops from
the district of New Serbia many of
whom were Bulgarians. are reported
by Serbian prisoners" says an Overseas
News Agency dispatch from Berlin.
Although they were interming gied
with troops from the old Serbian dis
tricts they deserted in masses
NThe Serbian army, the prisoners
say. is only held together by the
stanchness and obstinacy of the old
Serbian element, which is fighting 2
last desperate struggle. but is dispir-
tied and convinced that ultimate de-
feat is inevitable. The desertions and
the heavy losses by the Serbians in
cannon and war material are de-
clsred TO have made their defensive
fight a hopeless one
Difficulties of the Austro-Gerrnan
and Bulgarian advance in first the
s~anlps and then the mountainous dis
trict OF Serbia are described by the
prisoners. who say that in some pIaces
cannon mad to be dragged across a
!oadiess country by oxen, sometime,
iwSSe being hUched TO a gun
Enormous Stores Captured.
Dispatches received by the Bulgaria
legation In Berlin report that the Bull
garlan army marching from Nish tc
i-eskoVac captured enormous military
supplies or all kinds which the Serbia ms
had abandoned. The Decentralization
or the Serbians, it was gathered from
adVlees. had evidently reached such .
point that their serious resistance or
a large scale was no longer to be ex.
Eected. according to advices
member of the Bulgarian legStior
in Berlin called attention to the state
ments that a large number of rife,
had been picked UP along the line O,
march, as also were pieces of artiller,
and ammunition wagons with the hsr
ness cut and the horses gone. He re.
aarded 1T as improba BILE that any con.
siderable body of troops could escans
across the Montenegrin or Albania r
frontiers.
Germans at Saloniki.
ROME, November l3-Four Germa
ofhcers arrived st Saloniki from Soft,
october 70 and spent three days no
toring In that district especially i,
the section where the allied troop
were concentrated on the 2sth. accord
Ing to a story printed by the lattin,
hHder Saloniki date. They are sal.
TO have been taken to Piraeus on <;
Greek torpedo boat
The hattino correspondent asserts h
has been assured the Germans consti
tuted special mission whose oSjec
was to establish relations between tn
GoVerpmenbs at Athens, Constantine
pie Bucharest and Sofia. The chief O
the 0ission is not identified. but is sal,
TO have been a persoaage close TO Em
peror William
II is asserted the other members " err
Baron Won Falkehhausen, Col. Won E.rb
seiner and an officer of inferior rank
King Constantine was assured by tn.
Germans, the Mattino's correspondent