The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-22
Hard Pressed There Is No
Hope for Gallant Serbs I'M
less Allies Advance Rapidly
GERMANS REFUSED
In ATTACK ON FRENCH
In Eastern Zone Russians Are
Developing Savage Ofen-
sive at Many Points Along
Front

London, Oct. 2f.---The B,liga-
rians have ret.ained and now
hold firmly the city of Nranja. ON
the Salouica. Nish Railway. In
addition to cutting Serbia's only
rail of hope" at this important
point. they captured Nlesatlnc,
north Of srania, about half way
between that city and Nish. and
cut the railroad due west OF
Xiceatine.
These Bulgarian successes are ads
mitted by the Serbian war office.
Thus the Serbian army in the north.
hard pressed by the Austro-German
tnva ding armies is completely isolated
from the outside world. Giving way
to the pressure of the Teutons and
routing southwark. the Serbians are
bound. TO run into the center of the
BULGARIAN chain of armies. At the
same time the allied forces coming
to the northern Serbian army's aid to
save the heart of the little kingdom
from being flooded by the Teutontc
and Bulgarian invaders, must meet
the Bulgarians first
. Not only the center, but in the
northern and southern wings OF tho
Bulgarian invading legion made prog
ress The official report Issued torAght
at Sofa follows
I'VE are advancing i1r aha rtmok
Valley.
we repulsed at Negot,a the Ser
bians who were put TO flight. isaving
one officer and fifty men as prisoners
in our hands.
"one officer And l5o Serbian soldiers
were killed in the Timok Valley.
Near Prot we captured an important
etrategical point in the Vidlic mountain
range.
Near Brangua we finally established
ourselves in the valley of the Bulgar-
ian norava. tIn Serbian territory.
The booty taken at Vrsnja Includes
2.ooo. 600 rife cartridges. tobacco at the
value of 100000 francs (s2oo,ooo)
and 100000 kilogrames of hay,
We are advancing by Planka, where
we attacked and repulsed the Serbians
who are fleeing towards kumanoyo
Tn the valley of Bregalnitza our
offensive is advancing in the whole val
ley.
We are in possession of the plain
of otsche Pole, where our cavalry
dispersed the Serbians near kisseii.
Two thousand Serbians were taken
prisoners.
Serbians Admit Defeat.
Another Serbian official report re-
ceivad here tonight was as follows.
We have fallen back on our de-
fensive positions under pressure OF
the enemys artillery.
The Bulgars have cut the railroad
near Nranja. and we have evacuated
kochana and Istip.
The Bulgarians are striving to pre-
vent a junction between the allies and
the Serbians."
With the reca pture of vranja,
wrestei from them by Serbians for
a short while after it had been taken
by Bulgarian advance troops, prac-
tically achieves the Bulgarian an
nouncement referred to in the above
Official reports last sentence.
BY cuttings the Salonica Nish rail-
road at the second point, Vlesatine.
the Bulgarian onrush. X directed
northwards. menaces Nish. until few
days ago the Serbian capital.
Meanwhile the invaders Roadway In
the south, especially toward kuma-
novo. Is seriously threatening the
southern sector of the vital railroad.
Still further down they are dashing
from Istip, already in their hands.
toward kopruli With these objects
attained. military observers here agrsA
the Bulgarans will be in position to
await with some degree of calm this
arrival of the allied troops which at
last accounts were moving northwards
to relieve the Serbians II