New-York tribune., 1918-09-20
Enemy Burns Stores and
Villages in Wild Flight
in Macedonia
AZ Towns Stormed
By Allied Armies
British Aid Greeks in Fore
ing Foe Back on
Vardar

LONDON, Sept. 19.--The Allied
s-mies in Macedonia have severely de-
f.s.ed the reinforced Bulgar- r-German
srmies in the Cerna Valley and have
hurled the enemy hack ten miles on a
.uentv-hve-mile front. bringing the to-
,sl Allied advance in four days to more
.hsn twenty miles, according to official
sdyices reaching here to-day.
British troops are aiding the Greek
forces on the sixteenmile front be-
tween the Nardar and Lake Doran,
where the enemy has been beaten back
slightly in renewed attacks. Terrific
artillery fire continues on this front
nnabated, and may be the prelude to
the sweeping Anglo Greek drive foN
cast BY Arthur Balfour, British Minis
ter Of Foreign Affairs.
The enemy's line has broken and he
:. in full retreat, burning stores and
villages.
Fifty Cannon Taken
Forty-fve villages have been stormed
BY Serbian, Greek and French forces.
Fifty cannon, including twenty heavies,
and thousands of prisoners have been
captured.
Driving forward through the noun
tains on both sides of the Cerna, the
Allied armies took the Bulgarian de-
fences by assault, hurting the enemy
from prepared positions and forcing
him to fall back rapidly to the north
ward. Ierrinc losses have been in
ficted on the foe. The villages wrested
from the foe include Stravina, Zonlk,
Topolets, Polchista. Besmishta, Nell
nista. Nitolishta. Gradeschnltza and
Raslsbey, all of which lie in the noun
tain region thirty miles east Of Mon
astlr.
AerOplanes Harass Enemy
Allied aviators have greatly aided
in the defeat and pursuit of the enemy,
dropping large quantities Of bombs on
concentrations and retreating troop
columns and inhicting enormous losses.
The French statement reads:
Despite important relnforcemcnts
hastily brought forward by the enemy,
bornly, the offensive of the Allied
armies continued successfully on the
18th. All detectives fixed for the day
we're reached. Attacks developed on q
front of about thirty-fve kilometres,
end progress was made to a depth Of
hfteen kilometres at certain points.
Serbian troops, operating with
French and Greek detachments. took.
after violent assault, forty-tve viii
lagos, including Zovik and Stravina
and the heights of Polchichte and
Bechichte, north of the River Grade
shnitza, and the village of Grade
shnitza, which was stubbornly defended
by the enemy, who had orders to hold
it at any cost. In the centre they
progressed on the hill which is situated
near Kodak, advanced northeast of
koziak and took a foothold on the hills
the Perez and occupied the massif of
Topoles. The booty captured was con-
siderable. More than fifty cannon, of
which twenty were heavy pieces, fell
into our hands. The number Of pris
oners is increasing increasingly. The
Allied aviators dominated completely
over the enemy and greatly aided in
the battle by attacking enemy troops"
The Bulgarian report says:
Between the village of Gradeshnitza
and the Jojorik Heights violent infan-
try fighting lasting the entire day oc
Cured in front of our new positions.
Repeated enemy attacks were re-
pulsed.
Near Lake Dorian Con the eastern
section of the Macedonian 'front.' there
was heavy artillery firing by both
sides. Advancing British troops we're
repulsed."