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Show HEIGHTS TAKEN BY THEALLIES But Serbians Are Compelled to Give Way to Heavy Bulgarian Forces. -- Paris, Aug., 22, 10:30 p. m. The allies have captured a 'series of heights west of the Vardar river on the Saloniki front, says a war office statement tonight. The text of t ehstatement follows: "The battle continued on August 21 on the whole front of the allied armies ar-mies on the Saloniki line. In the center the British-French forces have violently bombed Bulgarian positions on both sides of Lake Doiran, while our Infantry established itself in the southern spurs of the Beles mountains. moun-tains. "West of the Vardar our troops have occupied a line of heights near Ljumnica and have maintained their positions at all points in spite of violent vio-lent counter-attacks by the enemy. "The army has continued Its progress pro-gress in the mountainous zones between be-tween the Cerna and Moglenica rivers. On the two wings the enemy, at the cost of very heavy losses, has succeeded succeed-ed in pushing back our advance detachment. de-tachment. On one end of the line the covering detachment which attacked on August 20 west of Seres. Bulgarian Bulgar-ian forces more than a divfsion in strength, in order to delay their march, has fallen back on the Struma. All the passages of the river are solidly sol-idly held by the allies. On the ex-l treme left wing the Serbian army, after a very hot battle lasting two days, which was undertaken to retard the advance of the right wing of the Bulgarians, has re-taken its principal defensive position in the neighborhood of Lake Ostrovo." |