Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-04
FRENCH AND BRITISH
MAKE PRESENCE FELT
Forces Reported to Have Gained Sue
cess Along the Istip
Front.
INVADERS IN SIGHT OF NIsH
Uzice and Pristina Are Extreme
Points of Germanic Pincers
Being Closed Down
on Serbs.

SALONIKI, November q.
up to yesterday the Ser
bians, after two days of the
hercest kind of fighting,
were still holding the Bull
garians in check at Babuna.
The fighting along this front
is still in progress.
BERLIN, November A.
German troops have ad-
vanced in the region north
OF Kraievo, in Serbia, taking
$50 prisoners, according to
an official statement given
out by the German war office
today. The announcement
added that the Bulgarians
had stormed the town of
Kalafat, six miles northeast
of Nish.
LONDON, November A.
While the Serbians are fighting
doggedly to keep the way open
for their retreat into Montenegro
their Franco-British allies are be-
ginning to make their presence
felt in Macedonia, where, accord
ing to unofficial reports, they
have gained success on the Istip
front.
The Serbian army is retreating stead
lily toward it's central defenses. but its
fighting qualities apparently have not
been seriously impaired by the tre-
mendous battering it has received from
the invaders.
The only success for the Ser
bians admitted by Berlin is one
along the Nishava river, where the
BuIgarians have been thrown back to-
ward PaIanka by superior forces" but
the invaders now are only twelve and
one-half miles from the temporary Ser
bian capital, and a check along the
raised defenders much respite.
The defeat inflicted upon the Bulga-
rian center by the Serbians is said by
the Serbian war Office to have occasion
ed great losses to the Bulgarians and
compelled them to retreat in disorder.
Russians Concentrating.
From Bucharest comes a report tina,
the Russians are concentrating great
at he nrf nF in
bia. from which place they are expect
ed to make direct landing on Bull
garian territory. if Rumanid gives ar
Interpretation of the Internationally
zation OF the river Danube friendly tt
Russia. by which men and munition.
may be co2-eJed by the river into Bull
garia.
The gradual euveloping movement
whereby the Austro-Germans and Bull
garlans hope to surround the retreat
ing Serbian army and cut off its line o.
retreat into Montenegro, is brough
into clearer view by dispatches printed
in the morning papers. If Berlin tele
grams. received by way of Amster
dam. are correct, the Bulgarians ar.
now threatening Pristina which pro
Vides an opening into Montenegro
probably less than seventy miles wide
Tor the Serbian retreat.
Within Sight of Nish,
At the other end of their long crescent
shaped front the Bulgarians are With,
sight Of Nish. from the top of the wsxe
shed between the Svrljig and Nishay;
rivers. twelve miles from Nish On PIesl
inoun'ain they are within sunshot of tn,
Nish electric works at Svetapetka in tn
valley below. Heavy fighting is tet
near Rela Palanka. little farther east
In the center Of the crescent the threat
ened bulgarian advance from Veles to
CfE Er f..E
timely arrival Of allied reinforcements
tut news Of a Bulgarian column Green
ing around by way of KakandeIen an,
krnshevo TO take Monastir in the rea
mas thrown the fuha bitants of that cit,
into a fresh panic.
Hold Is Strengthened.
The most important feature of tn
Austro-German advance is considere
10 be the strengthening of their hoI
ON western Morava by the capture n
tzice. on the railroad which is the chic
Transserbian line. Uzice and Pristin
may be regarded as the northern AM
southern points of the pincers whicl
the enemy is endeavoring to close n,
the Serbian army.
The landing of French troops d,
Saloniki continues without incident
according to announcement made mi
afternoon by the French war ofJice -,
the operations in the east "
Reports of the landing of entente ~,
lied troops at kavala, in Bulgaria ar
hailed here, as the operation is copsid
cred to be an excellent piece of offer
sive strategy; The occupation of kavaI
by entente allied troops will necesslt. "
IL is believed here, several new and dis
tinct defensive concentrations by m
Bulgarians.
The first British contingent arrive
Friday at Guevsueli in the Serbian thea
ter, according to a dispatch filed at Sa
loniki but delayed. The British fore
will act separate unit, but in col
laboration with the French troop,
GuevgueIi is just across the Greek Dor
der. forty miles northwest OF SaIoniki
The French forces advancing north
west from the Greek frontier have nc