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Show j Belgian Forces Hold Ground While j Comrades Are Mowed Down in Rows 1 , m 1 - , I BULGARIAN AND SERBO FRENCH j CLASH FOR NISH RAILROAD 8 Bulgars Pressing From East to Form Junction With Teutonic 5 Forces Coming From the North Hard Fighting in Pro-si Pro-si gress on Western Front German Airmen Drop 3 Bombs on Fortress of Belfort Von Hinden- burg Progressing South of Riga. ITALIANS TO JOIN ALLIES IN BALKANS .. . London, Oct. 1 8, 4:37 p. m. The entente allies have ef- ; fected a landing at Enos, on the Aegean sea in European Jurkey, close to the Bulgarian border and have seized the rail- I road at that point, according to a dispatch from Athens to the i Mesaggerio of Rome, transmitted by the Central News. c r i Paris, Oct 13, 2:40 p. m. French 'forces repulsed completely last night 'three German attacks, according to tho announcement given out this af-! af-! ternoon by the French war office. I These took place at Bois-en-Hache to the southeast of Souchez. The text of the communication fol-1 fol-1 lows: 3? "Three new attacks on the part of ithe enemy against our positions at BBouse-en-Hache, to the northeast of jl Souchez, were completely checked .last night by curtalnB of fire in which i both artillery and infantry participa- ;ted. : Continuous French Fighting. I "To the south of the river Somme, n in the sector of Lipons, there has ,: ; been almost continuous lighting with II ' trench weapons, while in tho ruean-t ruean-t time our batteries directed an effec-w effec-w tlvo fire against the German works. L"To the north of Verdun, German forces have endeavored to occupy the craters of certain mines recently exploded ex-ploded between the lines. They have ft been repulsed everywhere. "Last night witnessed very spirited Infantry flre between the trencher in 'the vicinity of Nomomy. Our artil- lery in the same region has dispersed fjjgroups of pioneers of the enemy, par- Ktlcularly to the east of Eply and near (Jremecey and Bioncourt, and it has also bombarded the railroad station lat Blamont." ; Land and Sea Attacka. : i Following up their blockade of thp i Bulgarian coast operations by land . 'and sea against Bulgaria along the Aegean shores are to be prosecuted by the entente allies, including Italy, fan Athens dispatch states. : Two-thirds of the Serbian army is :ald in Athens advices to have been fflent against the Bulgarians, while the I remaining third is resisting Field a Marshal Von MackenBen's big army rin the north. . German Attempt Foiled. A dispatch from La Panne, Belgium, 'gays a German attempt to break tho Belgian lines on the Yser front Saturday Sat-urday and Sunday night, was foiled fbv the Belgians. The German effort, preceded by a fierce bombardment, .Tas launched at a point known as '"Death's Highway" in the Dixmude re- 1 Seventv-one lives were lost when the French steamer Admiral Hamlin me. sunk bv a submarine last week fin the Mediterranean, a Paris dispatch States. Thirty-three survivors have Ibeen landed at Marseilles. The sub-Jttarine sub-Jttarine is said to have been an Austrian Aus-trian vessel. Occupation of Strumitza Confirmed. If London, Oct. 18, 6:50 a. m. pecu-foation pecu-foation of Strumitza by the allied for- jcca is confirmed by a dispatch to trie K&jchange TelegTam company from KAthens. The dispatch adds that the tallied armies are advancing. 1 a number of allied warships are cruising in the Aegean off the Bulga-Mjtlan Bulga-Mjtlan port of Dedeaghatch. (I- Bulgarians Cut Railroad. II, Paris, Oct. IS. 5:05 a. m. A dis-1 dis-1 Patch ,to tho Petit Journal from Salo-Ifciiikl Salo-Ifciiikl says that persistent rumors are 1 current there that the Bulgarians ilfhave reached Vranje and succeeded 3LM cutting the railroad between Saloui-Mlkl Saloui-Mlkl an,u Nish. Vii Vranje is a Serbian town, about 20 LKtniles west of the border, situated on Awfi ra51road where the line makes its Iftnearest approach to Bulgaria. If Austrlans Heavy Losers. 11 London, Oct 18, 10:10 a. m. A Rc-Clter Rc-Clter dispatch from Cettlnje, Monte-no-ftBro, dated October 12, and delayed in iEtransmisBlon, says that attacks de-Wuvored de-Wuvored the preceding day by the Aus-trian8 Aus-trian8 against Montenegrin positions lion the Drina-Grahovo front wore re-ttPuUpd re-ttPuUpd with heavy losses. One of lree aeroplanes flying over the Mon--Wknegrin positions fell near Plevlje d the pilot and an officer were Hfctfured. U-K Bombs Drop In Switzerland. m Chaux des Fonds, Switzerland, Oct. fP. via Paris. 12:30 p. m. A foreign tlBroplane passed yesterday over this flHpn, which Is near the French bor-fJHKr' bor-fJHKr' and dropped three bombs. One Jtolt and one child wore wounded. SB, Review of War Situation. l flB a,lou. ct. IS, 12:09 p. m. Serbi-i jm an and Anglo-French troops have occupied oc-cupied tho Bulgarian town of Stru-mltsa, Stru-mltsa, fifty miles north of Salonlkl, according to official telegrams from Athens. This follows closely upon news that Serbians with allied assistance assist-ance have ropulsed a Bulgarian attack at-tack at Vilandovo, turning the advance ad-vance of the Bulgars Into a retreat beyond their own border. Thus the Anglo-French-Serbian action ac-tion in the Balkans has leaped out of the field of surmise into a vivid foreground fore-ground of fact and is asserted by London Lon-don military observers to have been crowned at the outset with success. Russian and Italian Aid. This arrival of French troops at the psychological moment when the Serbian struggle with 40,000 newly arrived ar-rived Bulgarians at Vilando-vo and Hundovo still hung In the balance, has dramatic qualities which, for the m-ment, m-ment, have completely eclipsed thq military exploits in tho other theatres. thea-tres. Tho chief military progress of the SerbcrAnglo-French success is the defeat of the Bulgarian project of cutting the Serblan-Nlsh railway which is known to have been tho Bulgarian objective. It is not clear whether British troops co-operated with the French in this operation, but a message from AthenB stating that they had left Salonikl Saturday for the Serbo-Bulgarian frontier indicated indica-ted they at least were near the scone of the fighting. Russian and Italian help thus far has only been extended by Increasing aggressiveness against the AuBtro-Germans AuBtro-Germans which makes a further deflection de-flection of Teutonic forces to the Balkans impracticable. In the eastern theatre of war the Germans are again attacking the Russian Rus-sian positions southeast of Riga, but Petrograd commentators regard this to be purely a demonstration calculated calcu-lated to distract attention from the Dvinsk region and Galicia, which have gained greatly in importance with the Balkan developments. It Is clear that at the battle which General Gen-eral von Ivanoff is fighting continues contin-ues with varying success, the Germans Ger-mans have been unable to establish themselves on the eastern bank of the river Stripa. f Although a particularly violent artillery ar-tillery duel continues on both sides in the Champagne region, the French war office reports slight progress. A strong barricade to the southeast of Neuville has been captured and the Givenchy wood positions have been consolidated. rr |