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Show German Armies Storm I Russian Positions and Inflict Severe Losses I-' Notable headway is being made by 1 the. Serbians on the Macedonian front J In their campaign for Monastir, ac- K cording to the current reports from r entente sources. Paris today announces further gains against the Bulgarians in the bend ' of the Cerna southeast of Monasti: ; where the Serbians have pished well to the north of the river following j their recent passage at Brod. j Unofficial advices also report the i.; Serbians, assisted by French troops, attacking in the Kenali region to 'a Ihe west, along the Plorlna-Monastlr i railway. t Kenali is less than ten miles from 13 Monastlr . The Bulgarian position I here is declared by the entente military mili-tary commentators to be virtually outflanked by the Serbian capture of ; Velyelso in the Cerna sector six miles northeast of Kenali. The latest Bulgarian and German official statements reported the Serbians Ser-bians checked In their Cerna valley campaign. On the Somme front in northern France, General Halg's forces are again scoring gains In their push towards to-wards Bapaumo, London announces. A new British advance near Butte de Warlencourt, south of the Albert- Bapaumo Ba-paumo road is reported. Russians Heavy Losses. Berlin Oct. 21. Via London, 4:12 p. m. Russian attempts to take trenches on the west bank of the river jj Stokhol, In Volhynia, were frustrated )i yesterday by troops under command ! of Prince Leopold of Bavaria with heavy losses to the attackers, says the official statement Issued today at German army headquarters. On the river Narayuvka, in Gallcia, the state-; state-; ment adds, the Gernvxns captured Russians positions northwest of Skom-orochy, Skom-orochy, taking 150 prisoners and sev-en sev-en machine guns. W 3,000 Russians Captured. p. m. German troops have forced their way into several points of the main positions of the Russians and Rumanians south of Rachova, on the Danube in Dobrudja. The troops of the central powers captured the t Black sea town of Tuzla after stub- born fighting and stormed the heights fj northwest of Toprai Sari and the heights northwest of Mulvlova. Some ji 3,000 Russians havo been captured by i the Teutonic and Bulgarian forces and 22 machine guns were taken. The ai5ll foregoing was announced in the offl-clal offl-clal statement Issued today by the -Ml Germany army headquarters. Heavy Fighting Continues. Kill Berlin, Oct. 21. Via London, 4:10 ES.H p. m. On the Somme battlefield l2f( heavy firing continues, says the offl-Br offl-Br clal statement given out today by the f; German army headquarters staff. English attacks on the German posl-tions posl-tions between Le Sars and Eaucourt ISslj l'Abbaye failed, the announcement says. taterl asjjtj Von Mackensen Loses. HI Petrograd, Oct, 21. Via London, USill 11:51 a. jn. An attack on the Russo-WM Russo-WM Rumanian lines in Dobrudja by Field Ml'J Marshal von Mackensen's forces yes-Wm yes-Wm terday resulted in the loss to the do aEejll fenders of the village of Kokardja, the war office announced today. Later MA attacks on the entente lines in the' &A same region were repulsed. h 1 British Push Forward. S London, Oct. 21, 12:28 p. m The flit British on the Somme front have condr made additional headway in their juntJli push toward Bapaume along the main At road from Albert, according to today s Sli announcement by the -war office, iP which records a gain of ground near iHsll Butt0 de Warlencourt. The statement reads: (flBSH "During the night further progress !m made in the neighborhood of Jm Butte de Warlencourt, Three was in- 55sh termittent shelling by the enemy on JSijgll our front north and south of the An- jStin ere. , , , MR "We successfully raided enemj 'j trenches, south of Neuve Chapello. oullsr 'cof Repulse of Serbian Attacks, iffjtt-ft Sofia, Oct. 20, via London, Oct. 21, dtSEF 6:35 a- m. The repulse of all Ser- WV bian attacks in the Cerna bend is tffM.h claimed in the official statement 1s- ldflSi: sued by the war office today. listiJiK1 The statement says: .nda ? "Macedonian front: Desperato flght- M ing continues In the Cerna tend, the rE,Sfe Serbians displaying particular obstl- aewS ." nacy in their efforts to advance, but 1 we repulsed all attacks by our fire .i and counter attacks. Enomy attempts 916',' to advance toward Tarnova and tne Bummit of Dobroupoljc failed. : "At the foot of the Belaschltza 1 mountain we dispersed an enomy 0B ? company which was trying to on- ' 'fl '? trench on the railway north o Dova .1 V Tope. On the Struma front the en- emy bombarded inhabited places, including in-cluding Seres." Serbians Continue Progress. Paris, Oct. 21, Noon. The official account of operations on tho Macedonian Mace-donian front issued hero today says that the Serbian forces which crossed the Cerna river, thrusting back tho Bulgarians and capturing several vll-.ages, vll-.ages, are continuing the offensive movement and havo made further progress. Teutons Meet Repulse. Petrograd, Oct. 21, via London, 11:55 a. m. The repulse of a Teutonic Teu-tonic attack in the Narayuvka district southeast of Lemberg In Gallcia is announced an-nounced by the war office in today's official statement. In Volhynia only artillery engagements and outpost encounters en-counters are reported. Tho statement reads: "In the Ulniavsk and Alexandrovsk settlements, eight versts (about five niileB) north of Kiselin (22 miles east of Vladlmir-Volynsk! in Volhynia) an artillery battle is proceeding. "In the region of Shelvov and west of Bubnov active reconnaissances have been conducted by our scouts. "An enemy attack from the Barnov farm near the Narayuvka (in Galicla southeast of Lemberg) two versts (about 1 1-4 miles) south of the village vil-lage of Svistelniki was repulsed. "In the wooded Carpathians snow is falling and has reached in the ravines a depth as great as four feet eight inches. "South of Dorna Watra (near the Rumanian border) tho enemy attacked attack-ed one of our advanced posts. Supported Sup-ported by 100 Cossacks the post repelled re-pelled and put the enemy to flight, capturing one machine gun, a trench cannon and a number of prisoners." Russo-Rumanian Army Retreats. Bucharest, Oct. 21, via London, 4:44 p. m. The offensive being pressed by the central powers in Dobrudja has forced tho retirement of the Russo-Rumanian Russo-Rumanian army in the center and on the left wing, the war office announced an-nounced today. The statement reads: "In Dobrudja violent enemy attacks have forced us to withdraw on tho center and left wing." Paris, Oct. 21. The official communication commu-nication Issued this afternoon regarding regard-ing military operations In France, says: "There was nothing of Importance during the night to report "Aviation: Yesterday our chasing aeroplanes had numerous- combats in which seven machines fell, three of them within our lines. These fell between be-tween Bouchavesnes and Rancourt. The four others dropped in the region re-gion of Moislains and Brie. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Hurtenaux, who brought down one of the machines, thus accounted for his tenth German aeroplane. Four other enemy machines which were badly hit after fights with our pilots were obliged to come down within their lines. "Last night one of our squadrons succeeded in dropping 40 bombs on the stations at Noyon and Chauney and afterward dropped bombs on a train between Appllly and Chauney. On the same night 15 of our aeroplanes aero-planes dropped 79 bombs in the region re-gion of Neale, Ham and at Matlzny and Tlez." |
