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Show ou BULGARIANS IN SIGHT OF NISH London, Nov. 4. Gneral Boyad-jleff's Boyad-jleff's victorious Bulgarian array is within sight of Nish, the war capital from which the Serbian government recently fled. Six miles northeast of the city the Bulgars today took Kalafat by storm, according to an official announcement from Berlin. From the heights surrounding sur-rounding a concentrated fire of huge howitzers is being poured upon the inner defenses. Four separate Bulgarian .columns are marching down on Nish, while the Austro-Gcrmans are pressing their advance ad-vance along the Nlsh-Belgrade railway. rail-way. The campaign of the invaders in northern Serbia is nearly complete. Trains will be running from Berlin to Constantinople within a few days, according to all indications. The positions captured by the Bulgarians Bul-garians dominate Nish, according to dispatches. A news agency dispatch from Sofia says that the northern fortifications for-tifications already are feeling the power of tho great Skoda guns. The wireless station has been shot down, leaving the Serbs with only one means of communication with the outside out-side world the radio tower at Mit-rovitza. Mit-rovitza. In northern and northwestern Serbia Ser-bia tho Austro-Germans report further successes. Following a Berlin announcement an-nouncement of an advance north of Kraljevo and the capture of 560 prisoners, pris-oners, Vienna tonight officially reported report-ed that the group invading Belgrade has joined hands with those operating from Visegrad, on tho Bosnian frontier. front-ier. The statement says: I Auacics against the Montenegrin, frontier positions continue. We repulsed re-pulsed enemy attacks against our captured cap-tured positions east of Bllek and south' of Avtovac "Serbian resistance in the region of Kragujewitz has collapsed. The enemy en-emy is retreating. "Austro-IIungarian troops of the army of General von Koevess have crossed tho Pozega and communication communica-tion between the Uzice group and that fighting west of Visegrad has been established. es-tablished. "Southwest of Cacak we have cap- uired me heights of Stolika and Lip-nice Lip-nice Glavica. "German forces have occupied Jago-dina. Jago-dina. One Bulgarian column has advanced ad-vanced to Bolievac. southwest of Zait-char, Zait-char, while another has stormed Lip-nica Lip-nica mountain, northwest of Nish. The Bulgarians are gaining southwest of Pirot." The capture of Bolievac is reported in an official statement from Sofia. Several villages also are reported to havo been occupied by the Bulgar armies fighting their way northwestward. northwest-ward. The plight of the Serbians is described de-scribed as becoming desperate. Men and women are fighting side by side in the trenches. From the north and west the Germans and Austrlans are driving down upon them., To the east the Bulgarians are smashing their way forward and now it is reported that their road of retreat Into Albania is being -mt off by Albanian rebels. A sever attack by commanders of irregulars irre-gulars has been launched on the Serbian Ser-bian rear, it Is reported from Duraz-zo, Duraz-zo, and a severe battle was fought at Tirana. Serbs Hold Pass. Th fiercest kind of fighting also is proceeding in southern Serbia, whore, reinforced by the French, tho Serbs are fighting to hold Jtabuna pass against Bulgarian attacks and save the Monastir district. So far, according to dispatches from Salonlki, they have been successful. A battle is raging around Prilep, twenty-five miles north of Monastir. |