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Show OFFENSIVE OPENED ON SALOil FRONT BRITISH AND FRENCH CROSS THE STRUMA TOWARDS THE BELGIAN FRONTIER. Fierce Fighting Continues on the Eastern Front, Where Russians Menace Kovel, the Situation on West Front Being Unchanged. London. The great offensive opened op-ened by the .allies Sunday on the Sa-loniki Sa-loniki front is developing, but no decisive de-cisive action has been fought. The British and French advancing on the right have crossed the Struma, pushing push-ing northeastward towards the Bulgarian Bulgar-ian frontier. At the same time the Serbians, who have (Opened a drive for Monastir, report re-port the capture of Bulgarian first line trenches. On the extreme left, however, immediately south of Monastir, Mon-astir, they have suffered a reverse and have evacuated the Greek town of Banica. Fierce fighting continues in the region re-gion of the Stokhod, on the eastern front, where the Russian advance menaces Kovel and the German salient sali-ent at Pinsk. The battle on the crest of the Carpathians also rages, both sides claiming minor successes. On the western front there has been no material change in the situation since the allies started their great attack at-tack Friday. German counterattacks made at several points along the British Brit-ish lines, according to London, met with no success. The Germans also have made a powerful effort to recapture recap-ture Fleury, in the Verdun sector, but Paris reports a complete repulse. The repeated unofficial reports that Portugal was about to take an active share on the European battlefield ap parently are confirmed by an announcement an-nouncement from Paris that a British-French British-French military commission has been sent to Lisbon. . Dispatches from Portugal Por-tugal have described military preparations prepara-tions c? a very extensive character, but there has been nothing to indicate the number of men under arms. British forces in German East Africa Af-rica have forced a passage of the Wami river and are approaching the important town of Kilossa, says a wai office statement. |