Show TAKE THIS BRINGS MUCH NEARER THE OPENING OF WAY THROUGH BULGARIA TO TURKEY success is not being achieved with out heavy losses the french troops fighting beside th gerbs serbs in southeastern sections london the bulgarians Bulga rians according to their official report have reached an important junction on the railway and have thus placed themselves across the route by which the allies reinforcements for the gerbs serbs would travel the in the north baye begun a more vigorous offensive and have crossed the danube near or sova this brings much nearer the linking up of the armies of the germanic allies and those of bulgaria and the opening of the way through bulgaria to constantinople success ie not being achieved without heavy losses as atta serbian vet erans well In trenched in their moun bains are offering stubborn resistance and are making be invaders pay a big price for every mile of country in evaded french troops are fighting beside the gerbs serbs in the southeastern sections and reports from athens say that other steps are being taken by the allies to help their small partner additional troops are being landed at bulgarian ports in the aegean and black seas are being bombarded and it Is believed that men and munitions will be sent to serbia by still another route without the active operation cooperation co of greece and roumania Rou manla however the al lies it Is feared here will not he able to do much tor some weeks the russian troops who have land ed at Do courland have according to berlin re embarked it this is true it is probable that the landing was intended as diversion in the hope 0 drawing german troops from the riga and evinsk regions where very heavy fighting was still in ress there Is no news of field marshal von drive toward the dalna southeast of riga but north west of evinsk he has made another attempt to reach the river and claims to have forced the russians from their positions inflicting great losses on them and taking nearly prisoners which has figured prominent ly in all the recent communications has been captured by the german the persistence with which the germans are attacking in this region shows the importance they attach to the capture of evinsk and riga and the line of the drina river before winter sets in on the rest of the eastern front the russians continue their isolated at tacks which are designed to prevent the germans from establishing a line of entrenchments such as they succeeded in doing before warsaw last year after the first attempts to take the city tailed except for a few attacks by the ger mans the fighting in the west has con alsted for the most part in artillery en gage ments and some exciting contests between the airmen |