The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-19
Bulgarian Invasion Of Macedonia
Reported To BE Crushed and
Beaten Back, With Serbs Hur-
ryng To Cut of the Retreat
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AUsTRo- GERMANS i.
~. DRIVE SLOWLY AHEAD
Nish Reports Teuton Casualties
During First Week Of Invasion
To Be $4,000 - First Ger.
man Prisoners Arrive In South
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I "ONDON, October 17-While
~ the Serbians are maintaining
a logged resistance to the ad-
vance of the Austro-German in
vaders of Serbia from the north,
piling up casualty list that is
staggering, and Tending back the
Bulgarian thrusts at the main rail
road in Macedonia, the army of
the Allies. which has been land !
ed with all its supplies at Salo-
nika, is now on the way north to
the Serbians' relief. q
The Allies left SaIonika yester7
day afternoon, the advance guard
departing in seven trains, which
the railroad administration at Sal
onlka had been ordered by the
government at Athens to prepare
and place at the disposal of the
Allies. The orders were to des-
patch the trains to Ghevghet,
some ten miles within the Serbian
borders and midway between
where the SerbianS are meeting
the Bulgarian advance against
Dorian and the point where
Serbian force has crossed into
Bulgaria and is advancing against
the. Bulgarian town of Strumitza.
Bulgars Driven Back
Yesterday heavy cannonading
was heard in the direction of Do
rian according to dispatches from
SalOnika and the news from this
section of the front is that the
Serbs have administered a deci-
Sive defeat upon the Bulgars and
are driving them back, the invad-
ers losing heavily in guns and
supplies. Dorian is a town on
the Graeco-Serbian line, some for
ty miles due north of SalOnika
and some ten miles south of the
Bulgarian border. The Bulgars
are reported to have sent forty
thousand men against this posi-
ton.
Twenty miles to the north of
Dorian the Serbs have thrown a
force into Bulgaria and are ad-
vanclng rapidly against Stru-
mitza, which they expect to occu-
py today. II the Bulgarian army
to the south is as demoralized by
defeat as the Salonika dispatches
indicate, the Serbians to the north
may be advanced to cut off its
retreat and the whole force may
be captured. This would dispose
at one blow of more than a tenth |
of the Bulgarian forces.
Bloody Fighting In North
In Northern Serbia, where, the
official reports from Berlin and
Vienna announce, the Serbs and
their reinforcements of Allies are
being slowly driven back, the |
fighting is of the most sanguinary |
nature According to despatch
from Nish to the Paris Temps, |
the Austro-German losses in this
fighting, up to Thursday, have |
amounted to eighty-hve thousand
men, Of whom twenty-five thou
sand have been killed. The very |
high proportion Of killed to
wounded, twenty-five to sixty, in
dicates the bloody opposition Of
the Serbs to the advance.
Other dispatches from Nish an
nounce the arrival there of the |
first German prisoners, a detail of |
four hundred having been brought |
i'll from the north.
Teuton's Announce Advances
An official communication sent
out from Vienna says that the
Austrians are pressing the Serb
rams back to the southeast Of Bel
grade and have reached the Avala