Show B Li TAKE WAR AR INTO NTO LAND LANDOf LANDOF Of SERBS Act May Plunge Italy Greece Rumania and Balkans Into Cauldron of Conflict He Heavy vy Losses in Fight REGION IS REMOTE Diplomatic Circles Deeply Concerned Over Possible Possible Pos Pos- sible Effects of Latest Clash King May Disavow Disavow Dis Dis- avow Troops' Troops Course By ED L. L KEEN IUn United t d Press Staff Stat Correspondent LONDON April A 3 A blow that may send four more more nations nations nations na na- na- na tumbling into the European war war has been struck t ck along the along B Serbian Serbian frontier Bulgarian But Bul garian garlan Irregulars havo Invaded d SerbIan Serbian Serb Serb- ian territory tho the Serbian war office e announced tonight h anti and arc are battling with Serbian troops along the Var- Var dar river yer Both sides sides' have hae suffered heavy losses and the struggle W i continuing when the last st dispatches S reached Th The news created a s 's sensation In European capitals nome Home dIspatches tonight reported lith interrupted and amid wild viiI re reports reports reports re- re ports that Gre Greek k troops had hall been leen hurried northward toward t th the he sc ne neof of or 0 the fighting a few miles mills from th time the Greek frontier Th The Serbian prime primo minister M. M I is re reported Te- Te ported to have haie telegraphed to Sofia SoCia a peremptory demand for tOI an nn explanation Lion tion Torch in the M Magazine The Serbian embassy tonight is confident that the Bl Bulgarian l raid would wOl be bl disavowed b by Kin King Ferdi nand Diplomatic circles however saw tho the possibility of tile the beginning b of an explosion in the tho Balkans that would first Bulgaria then n Italy Greece Grecco and ami Rumania into the war Will First reports of ot the thc Bulgarian in invasion iu- iu came from Rome Tilts This was followed l by an tit official statement from the Serbian war minister Ste- Ste t chAt ch At 2 j p m m. iy ty numerous Bulgarian Irregulars ulal's In military uniforms uni uni- forms attacked the lie So Serbians at the blockhouse near said tho the official statement Th lr ir superior force compelled our frontier guards to retreat toward toward- The Bulgarians have occupied all the heights on the left bank of ot the River Fighting continues with considerable losses for both sides Formerly Turkish Soil The scene of the time lighting is in n time the B fifty miles northeast of ot at tho the extreme southeast corner of or Serbia and a at a afew t few miles north of ot th the Greek border border bor ben der The engagement Is being fought on soil soli formerly part palt of Turkey hut but relinquished to the time Serbians after the last Balkan war Because of the tho remoteness of ot the region and amid the lie fact that communication tion iou with ha has been Interrupted Inter- Inter only mea meager er now news reached European capitals tonight This was to the tho effect that the Bulgarians advanced front from rom the town of or crossed the time river and de demanded dc- dc mande l the evacuation b by the Serbians Serbians Serb Serb- ians tans of ot the lie bord border r town of ot This Is s Second Clash The Serbian frontier gua guards ds an answered answered an- an the demand with volleys vol yol- leys lova from tram their lr rifles and ami then fell back to the toward the village of ot The They were reinforced h by other Serbian frontier patrols There is no ilo Indication either in iii t tha or Rome dispatches that Bulgarian Bul Bul- garian regulars are en engaged ed in the tho combat This is tho the second clash clash between Serbian and Bulgarian frontier forces within a few tew weeks Shots Shota arc said to ha have hae e been exchanged a a. t few w days day ago hut but neither attempted to cross cross tho the boundary line |