The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-19
SERBS, GREEKS
NDFRENCH WIN
RIDGEPOSITIONS
Allies Penetrate Deeply
Into Lines Over a Front
of Ten Miles.
TAKE 1000 PRISONERS
Resistance of Enemy Decreases
as Serbians and French
Push Forward.

LONDON. Sept. 1S.--As dispatches Civ
Ing additional details OF the fight begin
to arrive it becomes apparent that the
new offensive Of the Allies in Mace
donia is rapidly developing into a rout
OF the Bulgarians and that the Ger
man troops who, have been sent to this
front to bolster up the retreat also have
been put to flight. In the face Of weak
ening opposition by the Bulgarians and
the Germans, the Serbians and the
French have pressed their advance into
the enemy lines to a distance Of ten
miles and have taken more than 1000
prisoners with fifty guns. some of large
calibre. The Bulgarian resistance is de-
creasing as the allied troops continue
their advance northward.
Admission that German troops have
arrived at the front to assist the Bull
garians is contained In an official state
ment from the Berlin War ONCE to-
day. As Is usual when the battle is
going against them, the Germans make
no mention as to the outcome of the
fighting, simply saying that the forces
Of the Central Powers are lighting
French. Serbians and Greeks.
The official statements OF the fight
ing received here to-day follow:
sERBIAN-ws have repulsed a
number of violent counter attacks in
the Koyiak region. The German troops
which were sent to the aid Of the Bull
garians have been put to flight with
the latter.
We continue to advance along the
whole front The village Of Gradesh-
nitsa is in our hands. The allied troops
have taken the village of Starovina.
The number OF prisoners exceeds
1000. The number of captured guns
exceeds so. The enemy has also aban-
doned enormous quantities of war ma
terial.
FRENCH>l NighO-Our op-
erations undertaken on September 10
on the Macedonian front were pur-
sued to-day with every success. The
breach made In the enemy's lines on
September 10 on the front Of Sokol-
Dobropolje- -Vetrenik was widened to
the west and to the east for distance
of more than 25 kilometers and to
depth of kilometere.
West OF Sokol Serbian divisions
captured the enemy fortified zone be-
tween Gradeshnitza and Sokol. and
crossing the Gradeshnitsa River, drove
the enemy back in disorder on TO the
Razim Bay ridge. where the enemy
units were bombarded by allied air.
planes.
East of vetrenik the allied forces
captured the Chem and Colo Bio
massifs and the defenses. of Zborsko.
A Jugoslav division. taking ad-
vantage OF their initial success, stormed
to-day the Koziak massif, the second
enemy defensive position in this
region.
The number OF prisoners taken in
the first two days of the operations
totalled more than 1000, including
a Colonel with his star. and more
than thirty guns. numerous mine
throwers and machine guns and
considerable quantity Of material re-
manned In our hands.
The offensive continues.
The Serbian troops are fighting with
splendid morale. They have equalled
the endurance, courage, spirit and sac
rifice of French units in repulsing Bull
garian counter attacks. Fighting stub
bornly in the face of very energetic
resistance they stormed positions
which the enemy had prepared for
three years on ground at an average
height of 1900 meters, including sew
era wooded heights which appeared
TO he impregnable.
GERMAN-East of the Cerna the
Bulgarlans since September 10 have
been engaged in fighting French. Ser
bians and Greeks. German battalions
also have been employed in repulsing
the enemy.
Military strategists here advance the
that the present advance in
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