Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-04
FRENCH F0RCES ON
 MACEDONIAN FRONT
oo1respondeht Tells of Quick Vie
 tory-Arriyal G, Stanford University Corps.

1 Afmy Headquarters, Florlna. Mac
 edonia. October 15.-(Staff corre. spondence Of the Associated Press --:'Sh :ai Grosetti, commander-in- Hhlel o1 the left wing Of the army of tne os1ent, was at headquarters here q Iew days ago when his chief of i stati' Colonel EXpert-besanccn, arriv. eo With welcome news of big sue. cess. Our party had just arrived rom General Sarrail's headouarters at Saloniki. and this save the oppor- tunlty Of sharing in the good news Of observing it's sequel when the French, official account was verified and inc German account was proved to be incorrect.
 Colonel Besancon's .ood news was that the French forces, co operating Wltn the Albanian mountaineers. had caught an Austrian detachment in a packet and made short work of it. The Austrians had stacked their arms and were about their camp duties with their coats off. Suddenly the French and the AlDanians burst on them from the surrounding hills. sweeping the camp with their machine gun fire from high cliff The fight was quick and awful. Tho Austrians had no time to get their guns. They were literally annihilated. Those who were not killed surrendered. They counted dead numbered 300; the pris- oners 450. The FrenchAlbanian loss was only three men killed and seven wounded.
 Stanford Boys Arrive.
 The French official communique duly recorded this incident, with the killed and wounded. The German communicate also referred to it, but gave a different version. According to to the Germans, the French made an attack, which was repulsed without loss. That night the American ambu- lance section from Leland Stanford University, California, arrived with some of the wounded, and with inde- pendent evidence, based on talking with the captured prisoners. ana counting them, that the French yer sion had told the truth and the Ger man version had concealed it.
 West of the Vardar, Macedonia grows more fertile. There are small farms, with water buffalo dragging primitive wooden blows. This is the region which the Greek government hopes to reclaim into vast farm ing section.
 Heavy Fighting.
 Nearing army headquarters at Flo rina, there were evidences of the heavy fighting which had been going on. The splendid five-s,pan steel bridge at Eksisu had been blown up by the BulgarAustrians as they fell back after the last drive. The twisted framework of the bridge was down in gulley, with portions of the gird- CTS hanging to the piers at either end. The enemy was only few miles to the north. and was still showing its resentment for this drive.
 At the nearby British Red Cross hospital at Vertekop we saw where bombs had just been dropped in an air raid, killing a number of sick and several nurses, although huge red crosses, laid flat on the ground, plain Nv showed this was hospital entitled to protection.
 General Grosetti keeps hammering away on this Monastir front, just as he did on the Marne and the Yser. He has had one of the most notable ca reers of the war. It was his division of Foch's army which made the fa- nous drive on von Kluck's flank at the battle of the Marne, which, in the Judgment of military experts, turned the tide in the great battle: He was in the big Champagne offen' sive, and the Argonne. and on the Yser, and now he is in chief command of the French. Serb, Russian, Italian and Greek divisions which have clear ed the enemy away from Monastir. pressed him back forty miles, ana has the task of keeping him on the move to the rear.