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Show HOW BULGARIANS RAN BIG RISK AND MET DISASTER LONDON, Sept. IS. 11 p. hi. Dispatches reaching London describe the operations which resulted in the capture by the entente en-tente allied forces of Fiorina, Macedonia. According to Reuters Salouiki correspondent, corre-spondent, the Bulgarians, in extending t heir line so far south as the region of Lake Ostrovo with limited forces, played a bold but dangerous game. Success would have compromised the whole entente en-tente allied line, but lack of success was bound to prove costly by jeopardizing the whole Bulgarian right. The first wavering among the Bulgarians, Bul-garians, savs the dispatch, was caused by the unexpected pressure of the French and Russians on their extreme flank, and the Serbians, profiting by this Indecision, attacked energetically on the 12th and 13th. At first the Serbian infantry made Utile Impression on the well-Intrenched Bulgarians, but after a strong bombardment bombard-ment with high explosives, the Serbians carried line after line of trenches, and compelled the Bulgarians to abandon the whole of their advanced position along the Malkanldze range. The whole Bulgarian rtgnt wing fell back and the entente allies obtained command com-mand of the ranges dominating the Fiorina plain. An Athens dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company described the later phases of the concentration of the attack on Fiorina which was carried out with the greatest secrecy. The contingents were divided into three parts in a converging con-verging movement to connect at Fiorina. The Russians started from Verria, south--' west of Salonlkl, and proceeded by forced marches. A French column was directed against the same objective, while the Serbians in the region of Horovlt? were ordered to repel the Bulgarians from the heights in the vicinity of Ekshisti and Petroskou, The " Bulgarians were decimated and fled, leaving everything behind. The road to Monastir, the dispatch adds, now is free, and it is safe to predict that the entente allies will meet with little lit-tle resistance in taking the town. |