Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-05 | Page 2 | Serbians Defeat Bulgarians East of Cerna River

SERBIANS DEFEAT BULGARIANS EAST OF CERNA RIVER SALOXIKI. Dec. 4, via London, 9 p. m. The Serbian official communication communica-tion issued today tells of the capture of heavily fortiried Bulgarian positions north of Grunishte and Bmllmirisa. east of the Cerna river, in Serbia, in lighting lasting several days and in which the Bulgarians suffered heavy casualties and lost prisoners, prison-ers, guns, machine guns and ammunition. The statement says: After sanguinary fighting lasting several days without interruption, despite the bad weather, the difficulties difficul-ties of terrain and the desperate resistance re-sistance of the enemy, our troops, by a brilliant attack, yesterday captured an entire series of powerfully fortified Bulgarian positions in the region north of Grunishte and Budimirtsa. The ruins of the ancient fortress above Grunishte are in our hands and the Bulgarians are fleeing northward, leaving a large number of dead on the battlefield. By this brilliant victory we captured numerous trophies, Including five field guns and five caissons, many machine guns, a quantity of ammunition and other material and many prisoners, who have not yet been counted. The number of guns we have captured up to now totals seventy-nine.