| Show liNES ARE CLOSING l SING ON COMB LE Brit British Firmly Establish Less Than Mile Front Fron Fro Western Outskirts and anif French re to East of Village Drive Their W Wedge edge Hoser FIGHTING REA HEAVY VY ON 1 MACEDONIAN l FRONT FROM 1 Serbs Reported to Ravel Have Made lade Progress in Lake Lakel Region Teutonic Forces Continue Their TheirS Advance in I SLAVS SLAYS HELD IN CHECK London tendon Sept 14 A 14 A wireless dispatch from Rome says that atthe at atthe atthe the general council of the central powers at the headquarters of the tho German emperor an n offensive campaign in the Balkans was mapped out and Germany will send send men and A Austria for this purpose s f LONDON r T ONDON Sept 14 Besot B by Br British Brit Brit- tish t- t iA ish on th the west t and md Fren French h on or he tile east cast Combles in in the Somme re re gion is on the verge of capture With the British firmly established less than a mile from the western west outskirts of the he village t the b French amile a amile I mile to the ea east t of it have e driven their wedge farther and md captured Le Priez farm The farm furm was taken by assa assault ci t. t Along the Bethune road to th the north and south of ot tho the Germans according to Paris have hare vainly attacked the newly won French positions In the hope of ot regaining their transport line hue to the north n Reciprocal Bombardment Except for tor or reciprocal bombardment and a a. slight advance anee b by the French by means of ot bombing bombing- attacks near Belloy- Belloy n En I south of or the the I ii i 1 elsewhere on tho the front In Continued on Page Pale 5 LINES CLOSING ON COMBLES Stronghold of Germans in Somme Region on Verge of Being Captured Continued From Pa Page c 1 France and Belgium remains un un- chan changed ed Teutonic allies are aro continuing their advance on the sector of Rumania Rumania Ru Ru- mania manJa according to Berlin and Sofia sona In Transylvania Rumanians have at attacked attacked at- at tacked west and east e of ot were repulsed repulse says the tho Vienna war office In the tho Russians attacked at c. c Ludo a and Kaput Their efforts to drive forward however were stopped with sanguinary losses a according accord accord- ord- ord lu lug ing to Vienna Ground On tho the Macedonian front heavy hea fighting lighting has taken place but with the results beclouded The Sorbs Serbs in the I Lake ako region are aro declared by Paris to have ha made appreciable progress progress ress while Berlin and ud Sofia mention gains for Cor neither side On tho the front where the Italians are facing the Bulgarians Bulgarians Bul Bul- Sofia asserts that tha t the tho Italians have havo been en put to flight In the tho region Ion the British have havo taken a Teutonic Teutonic Teutonic Teu Teu- tonic position north of th the tho town of or M o u c u Ic o 0 Although it had been stated prevIously previously previously pre pre- that tho the forts at Kavala a were evacuated by br the tho Bulgarians Berlin Berlin Berun Ber Ber- lin un says they are arc nil all l in the hands or orthe of the and that the Greek troops which were ero at Kavala have been sent to Germany German where they tho will remain rema until the end of ot the war in the status of neutral neutral In the Austro Italian theatre tho the us usual usual usual us- us ual bombardments and isolated Infantry infantry InCan InCan- tr try attacks continue Late Athens thons dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- dis- dis patches declare that M. M I. I has declined to form torm a a. cabinet to succeed suc sue that of or M. M Tv 1110 Killed London Sept 15 30 a. a m. m m. Brig Gens Gen Henry Fre Frederick Hugh Clifford and Luis Murphy have been killed in action aCCOr according to the latest casualty list Bri Brigadier adler General Clifford of or tho Suffolk regiment was born In 1867 and entered the army in 1888 1838 In the South African war ho he was awarded the Queens Queen's queens queen a medal merIal three clasps and the kings king's medal two clasps He lie was made mado madea I a temporary brigadier general in Juno June of last vear year He lie hail had been awarded the I distinguished service order me medal al in the present war Brigadier General of the Royal floyal artillery was born in 1870 and amI also had served t in the thc South African war where h he was given Ien the queens queen's medal the tho distinguished service ser order and was mentioned In dispatches In Inthe Inthe th the present war lie hO also has hns been mentioned men men- Uon honed d in dispatches lIe He was made mado a n. brigadier r general in October of last year car 0 I |
