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Show BULGARIANS TAKE USKUP FROM SERBS THIS BRINGS MUCH NEARER THE OPENING OF WAY THROUGH BULGARIA TO TURKEY. Success is Not Being Achieved Without With-out Heavy Losses, the French Troops Fighting Beside the Serbs in Southeastern Sections. Tendon. The Bulgarians, according to their official report, have reached L'skup, an important junction on the Saloniki-Nish railway, and have thus placed themselves across the route by which the allies' reinforcements for the Serbs would travel. The Austro-Germans, in the north, have begun a more vigorous offensive and have crossed the Danube near Or-sova. Or-sova. This brings much nearer the linking up of the armies of the Germanic Ger-manic allies and those of Bulgaria, and the opening of the way through Bulgaria to Constantinople. Success Is not being achieved without with-out heavy losses as the Serbian veterans, vet-erans, well intrenched in their mountains, moun-tains, are offering stubborn resistance and are making the invaders pay a big price for every mile of country invaded. in-vaded. French troops are fighting beside the 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 Saloniki; Bulgarian ports in the Aegean and Black seas are 'being bombarded, and It is lielieved that men and munitions will be sent to Serbia by still another route. Without the active co-operation of Greece and Roumania, however, the allies, al-lies, it is feared here, will not be able to do much for some weeks. The Russian troops, who have landed land-ed at Domeness, Courland, have, according ac-cording to Berlin, re-embarked. If this Is true, it is probable that the landing was intended as a diversion in the hope of drawing German troops from the Riga and Dvinsk regions, where very heavy fighting was still in progress. prog-ress. There is no news of Field Marshal von Hindenburg's drive toward the Dvina, southeast of Riga, but northwest north-west of Dvinsk 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 3,000 prisoners, llloukst, which has figured prominently prominent-ly in all the recent communications, has been captured by the Germans. The persistence with which the Germans Ger-mans are attacking in this region shows the importance they attach to the capture of Dvinsk and Riga and the line of the Drina river before winter win-ter sets in. On the rest of the eastern front the Russians continue their isolated attacks, at-tacks, which are designed to prevent the Germans from establishing a line of entrenchments such as they succeeded suc-ceeded In doing before Warsaw last year, after the first attempts to take the city failed. Except for a few attacks by the Germans Ger-mans the fighting in the west has consisted con-sisted for the most part in artillery engagements en-gagements and some exciting contests between theairmen. |