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Show French Retake Metven Height From Invaders and Advance for Miles While Serbs Win Other Victories, Clearing the Monastir District of Foes. TIDE HAS TURNED, SERBIANS BELIEVE First English Blood Is Spilled in Balkan Battle Bat-tle Aiding the French; More British Troops Are Rushing to the Front. (Sperfal Cable by Anangement with London Daily Telegraph and International News Service. ) SALOXIKr, Nov. 9. The French retook re-took Metven height ' from the Bulgarians Bul-garians and advanced to Faris, twelve miles northeast of Prilep. Direct communications com-munications have been established with the Serbian forces holding the Babuna passes. A Bulgarian column, descending descend-ing the Tresika river valley and the Te-to Te-to o road, was thrown back by the Serbians Ser-bians north of Krusevo. The situation of the Serbians before Monastir has' improved. Monastir is no longer directly threatened. On Saturday night the Bulgarians delivered two attacks at-tacks from the north on the French lines along the Krivolak railway, but were repulsed. They came again on Sunday and were repulsed. On Saturday Satur-day the first British blood was spilled upon the left of the French. The Kachanic passes remain in the possession of the Serbians. To the northeast of Kachanie the Serbians routed the Bulgarians. Apart from the loss of Nish, which could not be prevented, the Serbians are holding their own along the railway from Krusevac to Uzice, with the road open behind into the Kossovo district. There is good ground for hoping that the misfortunes of tho Serbians have ended and that the tide against them has reached its high-water mark, and what is left of the sorely-tried country will be saved from invasion. Large British forces have arrived and moro are expected. The allies will soon take the offensive. GERMANS REPORT HEAVY FIGHTING ON EAST FRONT BERLIN, Nov. 9, by wireless to 5?ay-ville. 5?ay-ville. Field Marshal von Hindenburg'a troops are still fighting heavily with the Russians on the Dvinsk front. Today's announcement from the war office says the Germans, by a counter-attack, ejected the Russians from part of a German first-line first-line position west of Dvinsk, which was captured by the Russians on November 7. In this engagement 373 Russians wero captured. General von Linsingen's troops won a success north of Kamarovv, capturing 3 6 Russians. The text of today's official statement regarding (he Russian campaign follows: fol-lows: Army of Kield Marshal von Hiivien-burg: Hiivien-burg: Russian attacks yesterday to the west and south or Riga, to the west of Jacobstadt and before Uvinsk were continue! wit hout the slightest success. During the night of November Novem-ber 7-8 enemy divisions . penetrated a small portion of our advance position posi-tion west of Dvinsk. In a counterattack counter-attack they were driven back. We took one officer and :i7'' men. Army of Prince Leopold: During the night there were engagements between be-tween patrols at several points. Army of General von Linshmen; In a successful fight north nf Ko-marow, Ko-marow, on the irlyr, 367 Russians were captured. Concerning the western front the war office says: There were no events of importance. impor-tance. A t tempt s by the French to win back a portion of the trench taken from them at Hilgenl'iist were frustrated. Greece Needs Money. PARIS. Nov. 9. --The Greek government govern-ment is reported to have appealed to the allies for further financial nssista nee. (Continued on Pago Three.) BULGilEAlT Of ALLIES II SERBIA (Continued from Tauo One.) A dispatch from Alliens to the linens N ews liKcu-y nays Ihul I lie Ru vern ment. ili-slres lo oh, it in no in Id 1 1 lonu I advance of 10, nun, mm franca and Ihal Ibis rc-ipiesl rc-ipiesl Is lielnK ciinsldered h.v input helically. TEUTONSWIN IN NORTH SERBIA, ALLIES IN SOUTH (SM. lot I'Hhlo l.y ArJAiie.-nioii' wltti honrtnn Datl? Trliitrnpli nnd 1 n irmui I nun 1 Nawb SoivI-. ) UMON, Nov. 9. The scythe-sluiped scythe-sluiped Toutoti-Hiilgar front, which is cutting ti gash through the bout of Serbia, swepl, across more territory t o-day, o-day, whi In i n sou Ih or n Serbia, on the handle of Mm scythe, the Sorlm-French t roups are reported to have gained some successes, including Ihe recapture of Veles h y the French. In the nort h the rush of invasion cont in lies. I ..esc u vac, sout h of N ish, on the rai I way to Su -lunik i, has been occupied liy the Ilul- , giirians and Alexinac, north of the captured cap-tured war capital, also has be. mi taken.' Tim character of the latter place, nuts I the Bulgarians in (dose touch with the A ustru-l iorniHiis, who, pressing south ward, have laken Krusevae. A gap of only a few miles rmna i ns closed before be-fore the Orient route will be completely complete-ly in the h a n d s of th e i n v a d e rs and trains will bo running from "the North sea to the Bnsphorus. A n official statement gi ven out in Berlin today supplements the report of Ihe capture of Krusevae with the information in-formation that 7000 Serbians were laken prisoner there. Fifty cannon, I wenty of whir h were heavy pieces, were captured. The allies meanwhile are reported to be sending troops forward rapidly to tho relief of the harassed Serbians. A Co pei di a gen dispatch stat es that news recei v ed from Berli n is to the effect that :!u0,000 French and British troops nlrendv have been landed at Saloniki. A dispatch to the Telegraph from its Saloniki correspondent reports the re-occupatinu re-occupatinu of Yeies by allied forces. Earlier Alliens reports stated that the Bulgaria ns were fa ling " back upon Veles before a S-rho A nglo -Erench advance. ad-vance. The Telogra ph correspondent gives as his authority the Serbian commander com-mander at Gnexgidi. Meanwhile, Italian advices are to the effect that 20n,0nn Russians have- been con cent rat ed upon the Rinnan ia n frontier fron-tier Hiid are awaiting orders for a descent de-scent upon Bulgaria. fhavv artillery in great force support s the H tissia n troops, it is said, some big guns already having been sent ahead by way of the Ln iiube. On tho western arc of the line of invasion in-vasion the A ust rians are engaged in a desperate st niggle with Montenegrin troops along the frontier. Further east A ust ro 11 unga rinti forces have gained fresh successes in the Kraljevo district, according to an official report received tonight from Vienna. The An?t ro-Geriuans in their advance through the Moravia valley have reached the most difficult country in Serbia, a series of jagged foothills and mountains, in which their gains are bought at a heavv co?t in life. Erom the beginning it. was predicted that the most desperate fighting would take place here, 1 he Serbs having prepared strong positions among the crests and upon the mountain sides. A report recei vod here from Berne avoids that the Teutonic, force? will not waste much time in this difficult eountrv, but will man h straight for Saloniki." Sa-loniki." A Berlin dispatch from Sofia hvh that the railway from Nish to Pi-rot, Pi-rot, near the Bulgarian frontier, has been opened and' traffic has been resumed. re-sumed. Another report says that the (iermans have been unable to use the Zaitchar Earacin railway because the Serbians destroyed all the tunnels. Serbian headquarters have again been moved before the Austro-German advance, it is reported in an Athens mc-sage tonight. They arc now said to be located at Kashka, twelve miles south of Xovibazar. |
