Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-19
VEIL OF SECRECY OVER
FIGHT AGAINST BULGARS
News From the Battle Fronts in the
Balkans Is Both Meager
and Conflicting.
TEUT0Ns FINDING JOB HARD
Agree With Reports From Allied
Sources That Serbians Are Of
fering Desperate Resistance
to the Invaders.

PARIS, October 10, 6:Io
p.m.-The railroad between
Saloniki and Nish has been
cut, according to information
received here today from an
authoritative source. Tele-
graphic communication by
direct wires between Greece
and Serbia has been inter-
rupted with the breaking of
railroad facilities.
LONDON, October 10, I2:II
pm.-The decision of the entente
powers to send large reinforce
ments to the Balkan front is indi-
Gated in a dispatch from Athens
today to the Exchange Telegraph
Company. 1t is said this decision
has been communicated to the
Greek government.
This information was conveyed,
the correspondent asserts, in the
form of a friendly note from the
British and Russian ministers at
Athens to the Greek government,
in which the plans of the entente
powers were outlined. The note
is said also to have pointed out
that the quadruple entente's in
depreciation of Greece's treaty OBJ
legations to Serbia apparently
was not in conformity to that OF
the Gre TX government.
Berlin reports that the BulgarS
have cut the railroad from Sa-'
loniki to Nish, which would
make exceedingly difficult the
forwarding Of further allied
troops to the aid of Serbia.
Italy's Part Uncertain.
Italy has declared war against Bull
garia. but the question whether she
will send troops to join the British and
French forces in Serbia remains as
obscure as the results of the fight rag
ing on Serbia's eastern frontier. The
German armies which occupied
Belgrade appear to have advanced
more than fifteen miles south of the
Of ..
between Bulgarians and Serbians alonS
the important Saloniki-Nish railway
cannot be summed up so easily.
At two points, the northernmost o.
which is Vranya. the Bulgarians assert
they have reached this railroad, while
to the south the Serbians are reported
to have driven back the invaders.
Official Reports Lacking.
Both Athens and Paris maintain that
French troops have occupied Strumitsa
in southwestern Bulgaria. but there are
available no official reports relating to
the struggle in this quarter and none is
expected until the hghting reaches
more conclusive stage.
A dispatch to the Chronicle from
Rome says:
y
the Serbians took 1000 prisoners and
four guns in the Gornacco sector. The
enemvs losses in killed and wounded
also were very heavy. The Serbians
We're victorious in the Timok region of
,ortheast Serbia. taking 800 prisoners
Bulgarian Losses Heavy.
PARIS. october 19, 2:2O pm.-Heavy
in ba 60hf
np which . .eceded the capture by the
allies of Strumitsa is reported in a dis
match from Saloniki to Milan. for
yarded to the Havas News Agency. 1t
is asserted that entire battalions of
Rulrarians Were annihlated by the
Franco Serbian forces.
British as well as French troops, the
says. took an important part
n the engagements northwest of Dol
AN. near the Eardar river, and at Vala-
,ov, IN the northeastern sector. At
he latter point the Buigarians made
, counter attack. but subsequently fed
across the frontier, pursued by the
SerpiGns.
The Hestia of Athens says that the
arrival of French troops has prevented
The Bulgarians from interrupting rail-
Xay commune ton. The BulGarianS
his newspaper states, were thrown
pack with heavy losses.
A train has arrived at Saloniki on
is way to Monastfr in southwestern
Serbia near the Greek border, carry
ng the books and money of the Serb
an National Bank. The train showed
he marks of the rifle fire through
which 1t had passed.
Stout Resistance to Teutons.
The Serbians are offering stout re-
istance to the Teutonic advance in the
emendia section, according to infor-
nation from Nish received by the
ournal A wireless message sent by
he Austrian general in charge there
o Field Marshal Won Mackensep and