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Show :J1 SERBS CROSS III' CERN.4 RIVER SiiR Make Victorious Advance and Force All Bulgarian and L'&K German Reserves to if V!!. WASHINGTON. Sept. 23 Serbian : lLif1! forces In Macedonia reached the Var- a L?imf dar region last Saturday and besides 'VtJ cutting the railroad line to Salonika eBilHwi lljere thQy aS crossed the crna riv- v.ii jlrFr if or anu cul mu ruiui at .uccauvine, ''Wroa.1 S'Grasko and Prilop, the principal corn-).u,e corn-).u,e tfni munlcatlons with the German-Bulgar-;u3 Ian anny. The Serbian official state-.S1 state-.S1 f ment says: fctuTl I "In a victorious advance, forcing Sajptftn?v f tue retrcaL oC a11 Bulgarian and Ger-i Ger-i u& $ man fresh reserves, the Serbian army vtH on September 21 had reached the Var-ofsSi, Var-ofsSi, dnr river. It has already begun to t&fai transfer certain detachments to the tfi ' left Elde of the rIvcr and b' that 'latSrJ ' means cutting the principal railway d ? line which connects the Serbian town iv "I of Skoplie Oskub, with Salonika. Some ' JiatS55' of the rferblan troops have crossed the 317. ''" ! Cerna river and have cut tho road N Stcreitft i at Deoauvlllc, Gradski, and Prllep the 'eel1 principal communications of tho Ger-afsrrssi1 Ger-afsrrssi1 man-Bulgarian army, s Ccfe?V, Strategic Advances Enormous B5l'? "The strategic advances, owing to llio interruption of the enemy's prin-.Tr prin-.Tr I cipal communications as well as the f AsSi complete piercing of the enemy's front Di&Ej& t are enormous and begin to have an tf rtuT c!'3 1 influence on the neighboring sectors. I , "From September 15 to tho 22nd, 'Tt7HIqJ tnG Serbian arniy has advanced In A ?KT atsjlj straight line 65 kilometers. Some of :r Klve . I Ihe Infantry trooj)s after emerging 11 1 from the mountains, have advanced i 'tJfsry up to forty kilometers daily. The jjfctjl number of prisoners and quantities of sfatelK vrar iuaterial captured are constantly wrc increasing." rilllfir-.-,. if.' nn |