Evening star., 1915-11-12
MAIN SERB ARMY
BELIEVED CUT OFF
BY THE INVADERS
PeriIous Position Between
KraIievo and Nish Is Re-
ported in Milan.
BULGARIANS IN FULL
RETREAT NEAR VELES
Forced to Ask Armistice in Order
to Bury Those Killed in
Fighting.
ALLIES GET FRESH FORCES
Far as Uskup-Russians Said
to Be Ascending the
Danube.

LONDON, November I2.-
There is grave reason to fear that
the main body of the Serbian
army which has been fighting the
Germans and the Bulgarians
right wing has been cut off be-
tween kra1ievo and Nish, say
dispatches received in Milan.
1t is possible, the dispatches
say, that as the southern Serbian
army is holding at katchanik the
retreating columns may escape
the tentacles OF the invaders, but
it is considered significant that no
news has been received from the
retreating Serbian army for FIVE
days
Field Marshal Won Mackensen
is pressing the pursuit of the
Serbians in the mountain dis
tricts OF central Serbia.
Already the Serbians have been
driven from the first of the ridges
south of kralievo. according to
today German official report
from Berlin. while south of
krusevac and elsewhere along the
winding line Gen. Putnik' S troops,
stubbornly fighting. have been
pushed further back into their
hilly defensive positions.
Todays military news from the
Balkans makes it appear there is
a distinct possibility that the
Anglo-French and Serbian forces
may succeed in gaining a part of
the Nish railroad as far as Uskup
All accounts received here OF
the recent fighting in the neigh
borhood OF Neles state that the
Bulgarians are in full retreat after
enormous losses. and that the
freshly arriving allied troops are
expected to push the advantage
already attained to a successful
conclusion. In this case the Bull
garians probably would have to
abandon the Uskup kutanova
line, and the whole southern por-
ton OF the railroad would revert
to entente allied hands.
Ask Time to Bury Dead.
According TO Information received
from Creek frontier station" says
Reuters Saloniki correspondent, fight
ing on a large scale has been proceed
ing since yesterday between Gradiko
and veles. The Bulgariaps asked for a
suspension of hostilities for five hours
for the purpose of burying the dead
and collecting the wounded, but only
two hours were granted.
Further British reinforcements have
been sent forward TO strengthen the
right wing of tine entente allies line
No reNl BILE news Of the operations in
northern Serbia is available here"
Pursuit of Serbs Continues
Pursuit of the Serbian army in q
southeriy direction continues, accor4
.ng to the German official report ISSUED
today. The advance OF the Germans il
the Rasina valley. southwest of Kru.
sevac. has reached the town of Kupci
Further eastward Ribaire and Ribarsk.
<anya have been reached. Yesterday
more than I,70O Serbians were taker
prisoner and eleven cannons were cap
rured, according to the German state
iuent. which addt that the first noun
tain ridge south of Kralivo has beer
crossed
Russians Ascend Danube
dispatch TO the Daily Express from
Geneva says a message received there
from Bucharest states that the Rus
slams have ascended the Danube rive
and landed a small force of men an,
guns near Silistria.
Silistria is on the southern bank o
the Danube in Rumanian territor,
some thirty miles east of where tn
river reaches Bulgarian soil.
Would influence Neutrals.
The Times Balkan correspondent
telegraphing from Bucharest. express
es the opinion that II Russia could sem
into the Serbian campaign a force o
200. 900 men while the French and Brit
iah troops are landing on the Aegeal
coast the hesitation which prevails il
certain quarters In Rumania would b
dissipated and both Rumania an
Greece would throw in their lots wit
the entente allies.
In this event" says the correspond
ent, "Rumania could fall on Bulgari
in the rear with 100000 men and 81
multaneously attack the German from
with 100000 men. Rumania feel
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