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Show BULGARS BOAST OF VICTORY, SNEER AT THE BRITISH SOFIA Dec 14 ia London Dec 15 12 1 a m December 12 wl ema n fo he B ga an arm and na on a day of g ea h sto ca mportance says a off a commun ca on ssued from gene a eadquarters On that day t e army occup ed he ast h ee Macedon a towns s n the ands of the enemy Do ran G evge 1 and S ruga The last f glits aga nst the B sh French and Serb ana took p ace near Do ran and the Ochrida lakes T e enemy even where s beaten Macedonia s freed Not a s ng e ost e so d er s to be found on Macedon a s so Af er jester-day s de feat of the Brit sh an French on he r ght bank of the Vardar er thev e ed upon neu a Greek terr ton Our troops pur sued them to the G eek frontier The own of Do ran was captured at noon The popula on rece ved our troops w th cheers and decorated them with flow ers The a so chee ed King Fe d nand The pr soners and dead and wounded be ong ch efly to the Tenth and Twen y second d v s ons composed of the Twenty n n h Th rt eth Th rty f"rst S y fifth S xty s x h and 5 xty seventh nfantry br gades wh ch we e def n te y beaten and n t e r e rea abandoned guns and r fles The who e f e d was cove ed w h equip n ent Xjp to he present 200 British pris oners have been counted co umn pursuing the French on the right bank of the Vardar drove them aft or a courageous attack from their posl ons towa d the Greek frontier A.t 1 50 in the afternoon we occup ed G evge i The French before retreating set fire to the barracks and the town o gether w h two hosp als and b ew up he rai way bridge across the "ardar south of Gievge The number of pr s one s and troops Is not vet ascerta ned Genera Sarra s army (French was thrown back from the Dolran Gievge i ne upon the Greek fron le It must be stated that the French roops fought much more bra e v than he Bri ish In the ten davs ope a ions which his tory w 1 cal the operations on the Var dar and Karassu o r roops we e op posed b 97 000 French and 7 000 Br t sh wi h 600 fed guns 30 mounta n guns and eighty hea lowitzers The remnan s of the Serbian army which retired from Bito a by wa of Ochrida and Struga toward Albania after heir defeat near Ochrida, retreated upon tiie left bank of the Dr na destroying all the bridges over the river Ear y today our troops c ossed the Drina near Struga Sou h of S ga hev attacked the be blans lgoous and took 400 p none s and a number of guns The purst it con t nued toward F basan T e mobl Izatlon of the Bulgarian army was announ ed on Sep ember 23 concen ration began n x davit ater Fighting against the Serbians began O tobe 14 Fortv das ate on November 23 the Ser b an army was definitely beaten near Prls na and Mitro tza and thrown upon A banian ter itorj On No ember 9 near Prist na and Kalatuma, the last remains of tlje Serb an army wee cap ured On December "i fighting he Var dar and Karassu began against the Brit Ish and French In tbe course of ten das General Sarrai s expeditionary f was beaten and thrown back on hp t al territory On December 12 the w o e of Macedonia was freed Not a single hostile soldier Is on Ma e don lan soil Tbls was tbe day of s h eratlon The pursuit of the en my wa immediately stopped |