The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-08-25
Bulgars and Germans Succeed In
Bending Back FIanks Of the
Allies In Fierce Contests For
the Positions In Macedonia
SERBIANS FORCED OUT
OF THEIR POSITIONS
British Report Advance In Their
Struggle To Go Forward To-
ward Bapaume and Russians
Pounding Turkish Armies Hard
tAssOeis.sd Press BY Federal wirslsss)

N ARTS, August 23.--Driven back on
either flank the Allies in the Bal.
= kans have reported that their cen.
ter Is standing fast, and that they have
even gained ground in the fierce fight.
ing for the Vardar Valley, positions
which are vital to the line they are en-,
deavoring to hold.
The reports made public by the If
fetal French communique last night in
dicated that the Allies in the center
Of the Balkan line has scored important
advances in spite Of the desperate re.
sistance of the Bulgarian and German
troops facing them. The dispatches
also indicate that the British and
French, after having successfully forced
their way across the river Struma, have
been driven back in places, and that the
Bulgarians have taken the important
city Of Dimir- Hissar, and have driven
the French back from their positions
before Seres. -'-.
Teutons Win victories
The Berlin Official account of the
fighting in the Balkans after asserting
that the late reports show the Teu.
tonic troops advancing along the entire
Macedonian front, says that pronounced
Victories have been won during the last
few days by the Teutons in the Balkan
arena and are being continued.
=. On this comparatively new front ac
tivity Id so great and the conflict il
reaching such proportions that it is the
center Of military interest. All the Ser
bian positions at Malka and Niezepla
nina east of Banica, IN what Nwas GreeF
Macedonia, have been captured.
p The French have been driven out Of
Buthkova and Tahimos and on Angus
If the Bulgarian left began a general
Offensive. advancing along the Strumr
river valley, occupying the Macedonian
town of Demir. Hissar and establishing
itself on the left bank of the Struma
Ahglo-French forces near Sores were re
pulsed. Ifir's t''
Russians In saionika
Reports from Athens tell of the ar.
rival at Salonika of brigade of Rus
SLAMS, on their way to join the Allies
troops fighting in the Balkans. Thi,
news was received in Athens with con.
siderable, disquietude, as it is feared
that Russian claims will conflict with
those Of Greece after the war, and tha'
the smaller country will undoubtedly
sufer, in consequence.
Other dispatches from the Greek ca
pital tell Of the confirmation of the re
ports that the Bulgars have succeeded |
in capturing Kastoria and Corytas.
Won Mackensen Commands
1t was also learned from Greek source |
that Field Marshal Won Macken sen is il |
active command of the Teutonic and |
hungarian forces operating in Macedo |
MIA and along the Greek frontier.
The Havas News Agency reports that |
the fighting in Macedonia and eastern
Greece Is becoming general, and that
in the Dorian sector, the Allies have sue.
ceeded in forcing back their foes anC
capturing the forts of Kaimakadar ant
Cucurlu.
While the center of the world q in.
terest is in the Balkans and the fight.
ing that is going on there, the other
fronts were active yesterday.
Allies Gain In West
In the west, along the line of trench
es north and south of the river SommF
there was desperate struggling for ad.
vantage. The reports of the Allied Cd.
erations continued to show marked |
gains. The French accounts tell of the
capture of a number of German trench
es north of the river. in the vicinity |
of Cherry, whore the French are press
ing forward to straighten, their lines
and to draw nearer to their objective,
the City of Peronne.
At the southern end of the Somme
field the French also announced gains.
In the vicinity of Estrees and Soye,
court their attacks on the Teutonic
lines were markedly successful, and
they drove the Germans out of a mum,
Der OF trenches.
+ The British troops north of the Som.
me, also reported advances of a more
important character. In the fighting
along the road from Pozieres to Ba.
paume they drove the Germans out Of
half q mile Of trenches. and took more
ground at the famous Leipsic redoubt
salient, where the Germans have been
fghtipg so bravely for weeks.
Move Toward Bapaume
Nenr the little town of Martinpuich,
which lies on the road to Banaume the
British took one hundred yards of Ger
ma n trenches aud they also continued !
their efforts to surround the Teutonic
trOOp'who have been holding positions
north of ThiepvRl
Berlin accounts of the fighting in
tho eastern theater of the great war;
continue to recount stories of the heavy