The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-09-25
ALLIES drive
CLOSER TO BIC
GERMAN BASE
British and French Make Gains
in Movement Against
st. Quentin.
SERBS PERIL BULGAR ARMY
Gain Nine Miles In Day and Approach
Great PriIep Highway - Many
Prisoners Have Been Captured,
Says Serbian Official Report.

London, Sept. 23.-The British at
tack against the Hindenburg line
northwest of st. Quentin was resumed
east Of Epehy, says the official report
from Field Marshal Haig.
Further steps forward have beer
taken by the British on the Flanders
front. The statement announces i'm
provement Of the British positions
west Of Messlnes to the south OF
Ypres, where strong point was cap
tured
Northwest of st. Quentin the British
continued their progress through the
main Hindenburg line, advancing their
front northwest of Bellenglise.
British Casualties
British casualties reported during
the week fellow:
Killed or died Of wounds, officers,
4S7; men, 1888. Wounded or missing,
! officers, 1,916; men, 17,2O6.
Northwest of st. Quentin the Brit
ish continued their progress through
the main Hindenburg line, advancing
their front northwest of Bellenglise.
North Of Gauche wood, west of VII
lers-Guislain, the British have been
pressed back slightly.
A British detachment of seven men
was surrounded and was believed to
have been captured when the Germans
took Moeuvres. Their post was in the
northern part of the village and they
held 1t for two days during the German
occupation and inflicting losses on the
enemy. When the village was retaken
the party rejoined its unit without loss.
French Take Benay.
Paris, Sept. 23.-In the drive for the
outfianking of st. Quentin on the
south, the French captured the town of
Benay and made progress north of that
place, the war office announces.
The Germans appeared to be hasten
ing the removal of the civil population
of st. Quentin and fires have been OBJ
served in different parts of the city,
says Marcel Hutin in the Echo de
Paris. The Germans, he adds, are plac-
ing numerous batteries in st. Quentin.
At Castres, where the French are
only slightly more than two miles from
st. Quentin, German counter-attack
was repulsed.
Serbs Chase BuIgars.
London, Sept. 23.-The Serbian
troops east of Monastir have advanced
more than nine miles in one day and
now are less than eight miles from the
main highway connecting Prilep with
the Vardar river.
A Serbian official statement received
here says that a great number of
prisoners have been captured and that
the allies have taken Godiyall, west of
the Cerna river, and 10 miles south
east of Prilep.
Serbians have passed the line Krnyovo-
Strigovo-Drogojel- Poloshko.
Soldiers who have been forced to
enlist IL the Bulgarian army during the
occupation of southern Serbia are
throwing 6Vay their arms and joining
the army OF. liberation.
KrynovO is1nine miles southwest of
Domifkapu, the nearest point on the
Vardar river and the Uskub- Saloniki
railroad from the advancing Serbian
line. Should the railroad be reached
here the Bulgarians fighting the Brit
ish and Greeks around Lake Dorian
would be cut off from their base of
supplies and re-enforcements.
Cavalry Presses BuIgars.
Paris, Sept. 23.-The official report
on the fighting in Macedonia reads:
"In spite of the Vigorous resistance
of the enemy's rear guards the Often
sive between the Cernad and Vardar
rivers continued to progress. Allied
cavalry have reached the region of
Poloshko. Serbian forces have gained
a foothold ON the left bank of the
Cerna in the region Of Dunye.
"The Serbians have succeeded In ac-
centuating their progress In the direc-
ton of KonOpishta, where they have
traversed particularly difficult ground
on the range of hills between the
Belashnitsa river and Bosiava. French
and Greek forces have taken the vil7
lage of Tushin and have gained foot
hold on the town of Dzena.
Because of difficult communications
over the vast amount of ground COW
cred by the operation, 1t Is not possible
as yet to estimate the number of pris-
oners taken, but 1t is known that 5000
prisoners and so cannon have been cap
tured.
1.-THE offensive of the Greeks and
British In the Lake Doiran region,
which has been marked by furious bat
ties, continues to progress. Violent
connter-attacks have been made In