Evening star., 1915-10-12
NEW ENEMY BEATEN BACK.
is CLAIM MADE BY NISH
Bulgars Make Drive at Kniashevatz.
twenty-five Miles Northeast
Of Serb Capital.
GIVE TEUToNs STIFF FIGHT
King Peters Army Reported to Be-
Offering Desperate Resistance
In the Hills Around
Belgrade.

Belgrade.
PARIS, October II. a:as
p.m.-A dispatch received
today by the Havas News
Agency from Nish, Serbia,
says: "The Bulgarians are
attacking the Serbian front
at Kniashevatz."
LONDON, October II, 1:5,
p.m.-The Serbian legation today
received this telegram from Nish:
Last night Bulgarians began
an attack in the direction of
Vlasina.
"All attacks up to the present
have been repulsed decisively."
A dispatch to the Times from
Athens says that the Bulgarians
began an attack on Serbia at
Gariboghaz, near Kniashevatz, at
midday on Monday.
Point Of Bulgar Attack.
Kniashevatz. near which point the Bull
gars are reported to have invaded Serbia,
is on branch line railroad running from
Nish to Zajecar, a fortified town on the
Serbian frontier, and Negotin on the
Danube
Kniashevatx is twenty-five miles north
east Of Nish, which has been the capital
of Belgrade early in the war.
1t is an equal distance east of Alexi-
natz, station on the Nish- Belgrade rail-
road, located on the Morava river. At
Alexinatz the Serbs were defeated by the
Turks in 1876.
May Go From Gallipoh.
The possible transfer of allied forces
from the Gallipo1i peninsula to meet
the Teutonic advance in Serbia is nint-
ed by the Globe. which says thal the
government is divided on the subject.
The Globe considers il vital that the
German plan to link DIP the central
that to this end all other considera-
tions must momentarily De sIbordi-
mated.
Germans Capture Semendria.
BERLIN; October II. via London, 3:25
p.m.-The Serbian city of Semendria. on
the Danube. east of Belgrade. has been
captured by the Germans.
The war office announced today that
both the town and the fortress OF
Semendria were captured yesterday.
The Austro-German forward movement
over the whole Serbian front is max
ing good progress.
VIENNA. October II. via London Oc-
tober 12.--Austro-German troops ad-
vancing from Belgrade have beaten
back the Serbians both southeast and
southwest of that city. This was an
nounced today by the Austrian war
office.
Serbs Fight stubbornIy.
PARIS, October 12.-Although Bel
grade has been evacuated. the Mathis
correspondent at Nish, in a dispatch
filed Sunday, said the fighting contin-
ued stubornly on the hills surrounding
the city, some of which had been taken
and retaken several times.
ARTILLERY on both Sides" the dispatch
says, has been firing without respite
for three days. The Serbs gained the
advantage again this morning when
they captured excellent positions near
Topeider and drove the Germans back
on a surburb of Belgrade called Great
Vratchaar, where fierce struggle is
going on.
The invaders threw over $4,000
shells on Belgrade. sparing neither
hospitals nor churches. Synagogues
were destroyed and Jewish families
who had taken refuge there were
buried in the ruins. French artillery
took part in the defense of the city.
The British. with several hundred
guns inflicted great losses upon the
Germans and sank two monitors in the
Danube. u
Near Ram on the Danube the Ser
bians were driven back with the loss
of four howitzers and several machine
guns"
German Ofhcers Command.
ROME, October II, via Paris. October
12-Bulgaria is entirely in the hands
of German officers, says the Giornale
DItalfa's Bucharest correspondent. Mai.
Baron Won Der Goltz, a son of the Ger
man field marshal, who is military at
Ia che at Sofia. quarreled with Premier
Ra doslavoff according to the corrc-
spondent, because M. Radoclavof asked
that Germany be the first to attack
Serbia, while Baron Won der Goltz de-
sired to have Bulgaria start the Of
The correspondent adds that several
|3ulparian regiments have mutinied and
|eft their quarters singing the Russian
national anthem.
Refuse to Join Colors.
GENEVA, Switzerland, October II,
via Paris, October 12.-About twenty
Bulgarian army officers who are In
have refused to join the
,olors.
Four of the Offices. including a
colonel who won honOrs in the war
With Turkey, are In Geneva. They say
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