Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-14
.BULCAR|A's $4,000 MEN %
SENT AGAINST SERBIA
Country Actively Enters World
War mt Side Of Central
Powers
INVADERS CLAIM SUCCESSES
Belgrade and Semendria Now in
kaiser's Hands, and His Forces
Are Continuing to Hammer Their
Way Southwark.

way Southwark.
| LONDON. October 13.-Rulearia's
army OF 100000 men has actively en-
| tered the war on the side of tho CEN
trail powers. Striking both northeast
and southeast Of Nlsh, Bulgarian
| forces have attacked Serbia at Carl
boghaz near Kniashevat2. and at
Viassi1a Nprobably Vlassinitza) and nj
Iasitchar, further to the south
! Tho object Of tho attack on Garibos-
haz is to reach and cut the tilroad
/ running northea stcrly from Nish TO
tho Roumanian border Once this limo
was cut 1t would be Impossible to SEND
any munitions into Serbia from Rou
mania.
The attacks to tho southeast of N,sn
/ at Vlassinitza and Zasitchar--are
aimed Mt the Belgrade Nish- usliup
Saioniki railroad. the sole line ovct
/ which Anglo French re-cnforcements
could reach Serbia from Greece
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
SEVERED by ENGLAND
Coincident with these moves or the
! part OF bulgaria, Great Britain severed
all diplomatic relations with King Fe--
dinands government. The Bulearlar,
minister to London was handed his
passports yesterday evening and he left
to-day. The British minister to
Sofia has received his passports and
left the Bulgarian capital yesterday
evening. Continued progress in their in
vasion OF Serbia from the north Is
reported by both Berlin and Vienna.
Our forward movement over tho
| whole front is making good progress"
i says Berlin. Both the town and for
tress OF Semendrta were taken yester-
! day."
The Vienna report said THE Aus
| tro- Hungarians have stormed Lipar
| Mountain and the Laudon intrench-
! mentS, capturing three guns and
! searchltghts. The heights around BEL
grade commanding the river-crossings
within field-gun range are now in our
| possession
Although a serious view Is taken in
| London of the Balkan situation, the
| tense feeling was somewhat relieved
yesterday by the announcement OF Pre-
mier Fiviani In the French chamber
| that Russian troops would soon be on
| posing the Bulgarians, and that there
! was perfect accord between Franco
| England and Russia.
The announcement OF Sir Edward
Grey on the Balkans which Is to be
made on Thursday, is awaited with
| great interest. Some little comment
was caused In political clubs here by
! the fact that the French Premier made
| no mention of Italy in his declaration
First news of the Bulgarian invasion
| or Serbia came in a dispatch to the
| Times from Athens. 1t reported that
| Gariboghaz had been attacked. An
| official statement from Nish., received
later In the day, made n 0 III entio % {
| this attack, but reported the attack
| on VlaSsina in bulletin as follows
Last night Bulgarians began attack
| In the direction of Vlassina.
| All attacks up to the present have
been rcpulsed dccisively"
a dispatch to the Paris Temps from
| Nish said: The BulGarians are at
| lacking the Serbians in the district of
| SaZitchar as we'll as at Kniashe With
the Germans and Austrians already in
| possession of Belgrade and Semendria
the northern termlni of the Saloniki
| Railroad, and with the same railroad
cut south of Nish and the Roumanian
| line cut, Serbia would be cut of from
war supplies in every direction.
The Serbians continue to offer des-
| perate resistance to the invading Aus
tro-German forces in the region around
| belgrade, according to Nish dispatch
| to the Paris Matin
The bloodiest battles are raging on
al the hills surro..rding Belgrade
| says this dispatch. Several SUBMITS
| ahNc been captured, lost and retaken
several times. German artillery sent
over $4,000 shells on Belgrade during
| the last three days. They spared
neither hospitals nor churches, syna-
| gogues were destroyed and Jewish fam
| mes VINO nad taken refuge there were
| buried In the ruins. French artillery
| took part in the defense of the CITY.
| The moral confidence of the Serbian
| soldiers is sublime. They let them
| selves be slaughtered rather than
! yield an Inch
| An Athens dispatch to the Petit
parisienne says: THE general i'm
| preston here Is that the German
| troops arc now simply trying to opeu
road between Austria and Turkey
| AS soon as this is done they will re-
| turn TO the other theaters of war.
leaving the duty of defending the rail-
road and securing the passage OF mu-
nittons to Bulgaria. Roumania has
taken no action as yet. but the Rome
| correspondent OF the Echo de Paris
| wires:
| II am In a position to state that
Rumanian Intervention on the side of
the allies has been absolutely decided
! upon The date has not been settled"
| Greece apparently has decided to Ig-
| more her treaty with Serbia. which pro-
! vided that she must go to the assist
! ance OF the latter country In case OF an
attack. When Premier Zaimis was
| notified to-day of the Bulgarian attack
| on Serbia he merely said:
Greece remains in n position Of
armed neutrality"
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