Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-23 | Page 1 | Serbians near Supply Artery

is n SUPPtYJRTERV Troops Push to Within Four Miles of Road Vital to Enemy. WASHINGTON', .Sept. :. Serbian troops pressing the Bulgarians and Germans Ger-mans in central Macedonia, adva need more than twenty kilometers Friday and are now within lour miles of the Kskub-.Saloi.iki Kskub-.Saloi.iki railroad, ihe main artery tor I he supply of the Austro-German a-nd Bulgarian Bulga-rian forces opposing the British and French armies on the Serbian right. An official dippn tch from Kerb i an general gen-eral headquarters at SaJoniki, receiver today to-day by the Serbian legation, said the Serbians captured sixteen villigf;n ;md twelve guns and now are several kilouK-t-:rs to the north of the village of Kava-dar. Kava-dar. Fresh Bulgarian and German ttoopa are arriving continuously to reinlorcr the ! enemy lines. Cutting of tbe L'skuh-fcaloniki railioad. , it was said unofficially bcr: todny, v ill I force the retirement of the enemy h-ft I wing and cans; a genti .J rc;id justrueni ! of th" enemy liii'-s in this iiiire section, j " yesterday advam-ed more than 1 twenty kilometer.- toward the north,'" said Ihe Serbian official statement. "Kresh iiulgviriau and Gr-rmari troops .re, arriving continually to reintoic-.- tb; enemy lines. During t h? retreat the (Bulgarians (Bul-garians fc-l fire to viNhfjis find plundered plun-dered all liiat if main-'d to the poveri-strieken poveri-strieken popukit ion." MOM K, pi . ' j. Tn ( onjun'.-tinn will, the gencr a 1 entente a II id of fi;nsi e ?i sv.iT.st tlx- Teulon and B'oh-nri lu for,- s. in Macedonia. I';. ban troops, yt '-.v rday 1 tvu-a;: v. icoro'::-; advn'-i-. in ;,. ).cui r,f ! The ripr 'Ytth. to tli" caM of M ma :-'t i r. Tli" offi.-u.l f Tatftivnt d 1od;n' M- tho Italian war offu-f y;iv ;ju,t tne Irojlt poiitioub w-rc cdpLurtd.