The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-10-21
new ARMY LANDED
ON TURKISH SOIL
BY ANGLO-FRENCH
Allies Land at EnoS and Seize
Railroad to Bulgaria Bull
CARS Are Driven Back
and Town Taken.
BIG BATTLES DEVELOPING
Germans Pressing on in Serbia
Unusual Activity Of Sc
we're Character on East
and West Fronts.


London. Oct 1s.--The entente allies
have erected landing at Enos. ON the
Aegean sea in European Turkey. close
TO the Bulgarian border and have
seized the railroad at that point ac-
cording to a dispatch from Athens TO
the Messaggero. OF Rome. transmitted
by the Central News.
London. Oct. Is.--Serbian and Anglo.
French troops have occupied the Bull
gRrian town OF Strumitsa, 80 miles
north OF Saloniki, according to official
kilograms from Athens. This follows
closely upon news that Serbians with
allied assistance have. repulsed a Bull
garian attack at Vilandovo, turning the
advance OF the Bulgara into a retreat
beyond their own border.
Thus the Anglo French Serbian ac-
ton I'm the Balkans has leaped out OF
the field OF surmIse into a vivid fore
ground OF fact and Is asserted by Lon
don military observers to have been
crowned at the outset with success.
Arrived IN Nick Of Time.
This arrival OF French troops at the
psychological moment when the Ser
bian struggle with 10000 newly ar
rived Bulgarians at Vilandovo and
k1unoONO SUN III lhiS DtlduGcs A1h8
dramatic qualities which for the mo-
nent have completely eclipsed the mill
tary exploits In the other threaters. The
chief military importance OF the allied
Serbian strike Is the defeat Of the Bull
garian project OF cutting the Salonikl-
Mon railroad which Is known TO have
been the Bulgarian objective, 1t 10 not
clear whether British troops co-operated
with the French In this operation. but
message from Athens stating they
left Saloniki Saturday fer the Serbo-
Bulgarian frontier indicated they at
least were near the scene Of the fight
ing.
Germans Forge Ahead.
y While bulgarian and Serb French
forces are clashine for possession OF
the Sa1oniki- Nish road In southern
Serbia the Austro- German invaders
are continuing their advance from the
north. Berlin today reported further
progress for the Teutonic armies south
OF Belgrade and in the Pozarevac
region. E Nas
In the Macva district on the save
Drina front, where the Serbians have
apparently hardly budged since the
beginning OF the invasion, they are now
beginning to give way Berlin reports
The Bulgarians. pressing from the
tonic forces coming from the north,
have captured additional heights.
Maokensen Asks Help.
Russian and Italian help thus far has
been only Indirectly eXerted by in
creased aggressiveness against the
Austro- Germans, which makes further
DETECTION OF Tsutonic forces to the
Balkans impracticable. General Won
Mackensen Is reported already to have
called for achievements.
In the eastern theater the Germans
are aGain attacking the Russian POSI-
lions southeast OF Riga, but Petrograd
commentors regard this to be purely n
denomination calculated to destrac.
| attention from the Dvinsk region ana
| Galtcia, which have gained greatly In
Importance with the Balkan develop
ments. 1t Is clear that although that
battle in which General Ivanhoff -
| fighting continues with varying sue
cess, the Germans have been unable
| 10 establish themselves on the eastern
bank OF the river Stripa.
with a particularly intense artillery
| fire continuing on both sides in the
| Cha mpagne region, the French war Of
| flee reports slight progress. "A strong
barricade to the southeast OF Neuville
| has been captured and the Givenchy
| wood positions have been consolidated.
Check Anglo French.
Hard fighting evidently has been In
progress in several sections or the
western front. Berlin chronicles the
| repulse OF repeated attacks by the
| British with strong forces In the vicin-
| ity OF Vermelles and the breaking w
OF French advances at Tahure In the
| Champagne. Ia. sl..
Defeat for the French in attempts to
| retake lost positions south Of Leintreq
and on the Schratzmannelle, In the
| Vosges is also reported by the Ger
| man war office. In the offfficial report
from Paris the only infantry clash OF
snoment was in the section OF the
Souches where it reported three at
lacks against positions In the Bois- En-
Hache were completely checked.
German airmen dropped eight bombs
| on the French fortress Of Belfort. Ber-
| lin announces the ayiators noting that
| a number of fires followed the explo-
| slons, E....s- r.. ~
In Russia Field Marshal Won Hinden
| burg reports good progress in his at
| tacks south of Riga. Russian attacks
west OF Jacobstadt and in, the Smorgol
| region were 'repulsed, while the Ger
/ mans claim to have captured Russian
| positions on front nearly two miles
| west OF IIloulSst ~