Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-16
EIGHT THOUSAND
SERBS TAKEN
Pursuit Being Pressed by
Invaders, Who Are.
Fiercely Attacked
.puNIsnlNG BuLGARs
Serbs Contcsting Every Foot OF
Ground Against Movements OF Aus
tro-Gcrmans.

tr0-Gcrmans.
Rerlin. Nov. 16-Announcement IS
made by the war office OF the capture
of $500 Serbians, with twelve can
non of these. 1000 prisoners and
.iy cannon were taken by the bui-
uarians Pursuit of the Serbians Is
be;np continued all along the front.
Farther west 1888 more SerDlans
including thirteen officers and TWO
cannon. were taken by the forces OF
Generals Gallwitb ard Won koevess'
who have thrown back the Seroians
along their entire line after nara
fighting.
rho Bulparians under Genera!
povadyeff are cooperating with the
Austro- Germans in their westward
drive from the Southern Morava.
London, Nov. l6-Eight thousand
and eight hundred Serbians have been
captured by the Teuton and Bulgarian
invaders during the last fortE-eisnt
hours.
The captured Serbs belonged t"
what until few days ago was the
..main Serbian army" but what Is
now dissolved into a swarm OF small
attachments scattered all over the
mountainous region in central ana
western Serbia, mainly in the vlcinlty
Of the Montenegrin frontier, where
R,,lrars and Austrians are trying &c
.rrrfre;r Il completion of The ''i''on9rng-
Berlin says the Serbs have beer
thrown hack along the entire
line "after hard fighting" thus again
illustrating the stubbornness OF the
defenders in yielding only lnch by
inch.
II IS now clear TO local military OBJ
servers that the Scrbians are not IN
.wild wholesale flight" mainly be-
cause the nature of the ground along
which they are row retreating makes.
such flight neither possible. noi
necessary. Nor arc the pursuing m;
valcrs. according to ;semiolficlal ad-
mission from Sofia in 4 position to-
push the pudsuit in a massed, con-
centrated line. Heavy artillery has be
come virtually useless in the noun
tain passes in which the Seros are
now establishing themselves for
life or death defense, 4 guerilla war
fare" as n statement emanating the
bulgarian capital says.
Nevertheless according to the same
statement the Serbs are falling into
the hands Of the invaders "at rate
cr 1000 or so day"
Reports from allies sources regard
ing the fighting in southern Serbia
and the strip Of Bulgarian territory
invaded by the Franco-British en-
peditionary force. continue to be op-
timistic, and everything points to IN
creasing violence in the fighting there
The news of the plight of King Peter
main forces was offset somewhat
from the allies point of view-by a
dispatch from Salonilii that the French
have forced the Bulgars back and are
moving toward Kosturino mfictlne
heavy losses on their Balkan adver-
Sary.
A later statement issued by the war
Office with regard to the Orient army
follows:
There has been intermitted cam
nonading in the region of Robova and
d towards krivolsk.
| "On November 13. violent action
took place on the left river OF the
Grona, where the Bulgarians are con-
tinuing their attacks without sue
| cess.
J Our troops are coming in closer
md closer touch with the Serbian de-
,achments operating in the Prilep re-
Gion."