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Show Teutons, Bulgars and Turks Fall Back Five Miles After Big En-gagement En-gagement and Dig Themselves In Under Cover of Strong Rear-Guard Rear-Guard Actions. ANOTHER BATTLE IS EXPECTED SOON French and Serbians Win New Successes on Macedonian Front, Where All Efforts of Bulgarians to Regain Lost Ground Fail. (Sprial Cable by ArrangrniPiu ilh London Daily Telegraph and Inienmlional New Survlc.) LONDON, Sept. 23. In an official communication issued at Bucharest this (Saturday) morning there is nothing which throws any light on the Berlin report of yesterday to the effect that Field Marshal Von Mackeuseu's army had driven back the Russians and Rumanians Ru-manians in disorder at a point fourteen four-teen miles southwest of Const an.a. On the contrary, the communication refers j only to skirmishes in which t ho Ru-! Ru-! manians iu Dobrudja province "put to i flight some units from the enemy's right flank." As the Berlin report obviously i referred to Vou Mackensen 's operations ; on his right Hank the contradiction is direct. The explanation probably is that the Berlin report is a belated account of the earlier stages of the great battlo which ended successfully for the liusso-Rumanian liusso-Rumanian army on Wednesday. Bucharest Official Report. The Bucharest official statement says: ' On the north and northwestern front s there were unimportant engage-menis. engage-menis. We took 140 prisoners and two machine guns. ' ' On the southern front in Dobrudja Ike enemy has stopped his retreat and is fortifying himself. We put to flight some units from the enemy's right flank. ''Kuemy aeroplanes bombarded Tcher-naveda, Tcher-naveda, killing seven men, of whom two were soldiers, and also several animals aud destroying three houses." An earlier eommunieat iou from Bucharest Bu-charest tated that the invaders had been driven back fi ve miles and wen; still in retreat. Jt is patent that Von Mackensen 's retreat was ouly for a few miles at most, and t hat the Kuspo-Ru-manian victory, although it eamo at the end of the sixth day of fierce fighting, was not of a nature to utterly rout, the enemy's forces, which protected themselves them-selves by rear guard engagements, it is to be expected, therefore, that a new battle soon will be fought, if, indeed, it is not already under way. Bulgars Dig Selves In. The Bulgar Turkish (Icrman forces are battling for possesion of the t'zerna-wod;i-( onstan.a mihvay, with the object of gaining the only Danube bridgehead in the Dobi ndja ;uid nl t lie same time cutting oil' Rumania from her principal se;;puit. The Bulgarian war ull'ice said today regarding the Dubrud.ja operations: "Our det a cli men ts arc consolidating their positions. ' tiermau aeroplanes attacked a Russia Rus-sia n s-piad ion off the Blu-k ea coast . Teuton seaplanes warded off a Russian naval bombardment of the Bulgarian port Varna. Conslana was ;helled by (Jerman hydroplanes. .Serbians Win Again. I-'im ther Serbian and Trench successes, suc-cesses, in their drive against the Bulgarian Bul-garian right in Ma ednnia, town rd Mon'istir. wore announce"! by General Suirail's oflicial report tnday. The Bulga'tan war office, mi the other hand, asserted that all attacks by e:b-', Rc-sians and French were repulsed. re-pulsed. Judications are that the Bulgars have recovered from t h ei r -reverses suffered suf-fered as a reMilt of the initial thrusts bv the Serbians, for the French official statement says the Serbians penetrated as far a.- "the immediate vicinity" of Xbreni. This town is eiht miles northwest north-west of Fiorina and nearly ten miles I soul Invest of' M onast ir. Bulgar forces violently counter attacked at-tacked between the ( zerua and Vaninr rivers today, but, according to t lie French report, were repulsed. The Serbs, (Continued, on Page Two.). iCKEli HILTS DOBRUDJA RETREAT (Continued from Page One.) in advancing on Zbreni, took JuO prisoners. pris-oners. The French cleared the ground northwest of Arnesko of Bulgarians after fierce hand-to-hand fighting. British warships during the last twenty-four hours shelled the Bulgar positions posi-tions on the east bank of the Struma :iroimd the village of Xcchori. five miles from the coast. Artillery dueU cn the Anglo-Bulgarian front are grow iiig in intensity. |