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Show DEFENSES III ; French, British and Serbian Ser-bian Forces, Operating at Different Points, Win Series of Suc- cesses on the Mace- donian Front; Large Number of Prisoners ! Taken. GERMANS UNABLE TO STEM TIDE Prince Frederick Wil- ; Ham of Hesse Killed in Battle at Cara Orman; ; Strength of Greek Army Corps to Be Transported Estimated at 25,000 Men. . (Special Cable by Arrangement wltli London Dally t Telejnph nd International Newa Service.)' LONDON, Sept. 15. The allied of-i of-i fensive in Macedonia continues in full swing. The Bulgaro-German first line de-Ajf'jcs de-Ajf'jcs have been penetrated on the right by the Serbs, in the center by rhe French and on the left by the halo-British forces. The most nota-, nota-, Me success during the last twenty-four flours was scored by the reorganized Sorbian army. After a three day battle, in which 'he Serbian heir apparent. Prince Alexander, Alex-ander, gave the opening signal by per-onally per-onally firing the first gunshot, the erbs have routed the conquerors of heir country nil along the front, driv-ng driv-ng them back upon the town of Fiorina, Fio-rina, seventeen miles south of Monastir. Charge With Bayonet. They carried the town of Gornizevo n an embittered dash at the point of ho bayonet and gained a firm foothold "u the crest of Malkanidzo mountain, lorthwest of Ostrovo lake, In their 'jrsuit of the Bulbars they took the illage of Eksisu, driving the defenders ack twelve miles. Twenty-five cannon o'l prisoners, as yet uncounted, fell "to Serbian hands. Simultaneously the allied right wing, ormed by the British on the Struma :'v", took by storm the town of Maku-ova Maku-ova and two points to the north, im- "Mi lately entrenching themselves. They ;nok 100 jirisoners and ten machine French Push Forward. Meanwhile the French, In the center, tween the Vavdar and Lake Dot ran. lso pushed their lines forward. They trorfld an advance half a mile deep on a riU of about a mile. The German war office admitted late ''"f afternoon the capture of JIalkanidze y tlip Serbs, "after violent fighting," but verted that the British east of the Var-were Var-were driven out of German trenches 111 which they had gained a foothold. French forces, supported by Russian roups withdrawn from the western front. "Wc Unitarian Irregulars hack nearly l,rty miles south of Lake Ostrovo. Gen-'ral Gen-'ral yarrail's Salonikl headquarters report 'l airs, Drop Bombs on Sofia. Two French aviators, Noel and Le-'leur, Le-'leur, flew from Salonikl to Bucharest ,lH Sotjn, covering a distance of nearly nillea, dropped five bombs upon the ""iRarian capital and arrived safely at I'liarest. They made the voyage in five c u r 6, ..An Athens dispatch late tonight says Bulgarians have given up the town of Astoria, southwest of Fiorina, hut have r"Mpie.1 tlie hcichta of Corvba, strongly giving them, 'ue statement follows: Prom the Struma to Lake Doiran '"p cannonade con tin ties everywhere every-where on both sides. It is rather spirited in the mountainous region f Relies. On the left bank of the Vardar "fitish troops delivered a violent Bt,ack against the Bulgarians, who Tc supported bv contingents of I'rmnn infantry. ' This terminated the advantage of the 'British, "akukovo was taken by assault, as 'dl as two points north of this locality. One hundred prisoners an,i about ten machine guns were captured. To the right of the Vardar the (Continued on Page Two.) BULGAR DEFENSES mm i me (Continued from Page One.) French troops took enemy Irenehea alon a front of 1000 meters to a depth of about 800 meters. liast of the l-crna the Rer.bi.ma eontimie to advance toward A'etre-nik A'etre-nik and Kajeekalan, west of Lake Ostrovo. The battle was under way for several days between t he Scrhian army and important Bulgarian Bul-garian forces. It resulted in a very brilliant success for our allies, (iorrizevo was carried at the point ot" bayonet as well as the greater portion of Malkanidze crest. Serbian cavalry, pursuing the Bulgarians as they retired in disorder, dis-order, captured 1 t he village of J-iksisu, thus compelling I heir adversaries ad-versaries to make a precipitate retreat re-treat of more thau fifteen kilometers kilome-ters (nine and three-tenth miles). During those actions the Serbians captured twenty-ii ve cannon and took a great number of prisoners. On our left wing Franco-Russian forces completely cleared out Bulgarian Bul-garian bands which had advanced as far as Koyani, from the entire region south of Lake Ostrovo for a distance of sixty kilometers. Kour French aeroplanes dropped numerous bombs on Sofia and then, continuing their voyage, lauded at Bucharest. |