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Show MOVE LAUNCHED TO FREE SERBIA MASSING OF ENTENTE TROOPS IN THESSALY FORESHADOWS ' ATTEMPT TO RETAKE SERBIA. I British Give Up Numerous Villages oif ; Eastern Wing Which They Had ! Burned, But Hold Tightly I to River Positions. I " I London. The massing of ententa troops in Thessaly seemingly is an lnr dlcatlon that big events are In the making in the Macedonian theatre in an attempt to retake Serbia, or ai least that portion of It as far as Nlsh. through which runs the famous Bar; . lin-Constantinople railway! No impediment Is being placed in the way of the troops that have beeo, landed In Thessaly, and .with the departure de-parture of former King Constantino from the country the people are declared de-clared to have become more friendly to the entente allied cause by placing their adherence In the provisional government gov-ernment of B. Venizelos. " Although on the eastern wing the. British have given up numerous villages, vil-lages, which they previously burned, they are holding tightly to the bridgehead bridge-head position on the left bank of tha River Struma in the Lake Tahlnos-Butkova Tahlnos-Butkova sector, northeast of Salonlkl. That the retirement the British was voluntary is indicated by the Bulgarian Bulgar-ian official report dealing with tha. the maneuver, which does not mention, any fighting as having taken place. There has, however, already been soma activity on the part of the British in the Vardar-Lake Doiran sector, but Sofia reports that the attempt made by them to advance near Dautll was repulsed. re-pulsed. To the east of Arras on the front In France the British troops haver been compelled to fall back from advanced ad-vanced positions before an attack delivered de-livered by the Germans, which was Covered by a heavy bombardment. Otherwise Oth-erwise there has been no fighting anywhere any-where in France or Belgium, except by: raiding parties and by the artillery wings of the opposing forces. In the Austro-Italian theatre tha first fighting for more than a week on the Carso plateau, where recently , the Italians attempted to break . through, toward Triest, is chronicled by Rome. Northeast of; Jumiano the Italians lnj an attack have been able to advance) and straighten out their line. In the, Trentlno zone Austrian attacks against Italian positions on the Aslago plateau, and In the- Vodice distrlot ware repulsed, re-pulsed, t ' Again Japanese torpedo boat destroyers de-stroyers In the Mediterranean have, been in combat with an enemy submarine. subma-rine. According to the Japanese naval attache In London, the underwater boat probably was sunk. |