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Show TEOTDNS SLOWLY . DIMBIAIS DEFENDERS FALLING BACK BEFORE BE-FORE AUSTRO-GERMANS, BUT ' -HOLDING BULGARIANS. Russians Take Offensive in East Against Von Hlndenburg, But With Indifferent Success, Owing to Marshy Ground. London. The Serbians are failing back from mountain range to mountain moun-tain range before the advance of the Austro-German forces, whose official reports enumerate the capture of a thousand or more -prisoners daily, a few guns and quantities of stores. The Serbians are fighting continuously, however, and are inflicting considerable consider-able losses on their pursuers. Along the eastern front, the Serbians Ser-bians appear to be holding their own against the Bulgarians and are making mak-ing a stand on the western river bank. So stubborn has been their resistance the Bulgarians have had to call for assistance as-sistance from the Austro-German artillery ar-tillery in their effort to drive the de-fenders de-fenders out of Katchanik pass. Thus far they have been unsuccessful. The British and French troops, which are receiving reinforcements, are meeting with some success, and besides repulsing the Bulgarian attacks, at-tacks, have undertaken small offensive movements with good results. The Austro-Germans and Bulgarians, however, how-ever, made such -progress from the beginning of the campaign that it will -now take serious work to check them. For the moment, the political situa-, tion is graver than the military situation. situa-tion. The central powers 'have again ; protested to Greece -against the landing land-ing of allied troops at -Saloniki. King Constantine is reported to have replied 1 that as Saloniki is an open port, there ' has been no infringement of Greek rights in the landing, -and that Greece will remain neutral until one of the j belligerents has transgressed against these rights. Italy has now joined her .allies by sending warship to Salon-1 iki, which on Friday 'bombarded the railway station at Deueaghatch, Bulgaria. Bul-garia. The Russians have 'definitely Te-' pelled J"ield Marshal Won Hinden-burg's Hinden-burg's drive toward Riga and Dvinsk and along the Dvina river and have themselves taken the offensive, but apparently, ap-parently, owing to the state of the -ground, have been able to make only ; Blow progress in the marsh region west of Riga. Along the Styr river., m the south, the Austro-Germans, by a counter stroke, have pierced the Russian lines and captured 1,500 prisoners, according, accord-ing, to the Berlin official statement. These strokes are about all that can be expected on the eastern front while the soft weather continues. |