TERRIFIC GERMAN LOSSES

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 93, 18 October 1915, Page 7

TERRIFIC GERMAN LOSSES

ADMITTED BY GERMANY PARIS, 16th October. The Nish correspondent of the Temps states that the Austro-Germans have already lost on the Obrenovatz-Belgrade-Semendria-Gradiste front (Save and Danube) over 20,000 killed and 50,000 wounded. A German wireless message admits terrible lobms. and ura« the Bulgarian*

to begin an immediate attack. It -adds that the enemy was able to evacuate only the Morava Plains, where the Austro-Germans gained ten miles. There are some fears that the Servians may be cut in two at Pojarevatz (near the Morava), causing their right wing to be thrown back to the Rumanian frontier. The Servians threw back the German army attempting to turn their wing at Semendria. The enemy was driven from Godomine and Marthes, on the right bank of the Danube. A Bavarian battalion was hurled into the river. SERVIANS MAINTAIN NEW POSITIONS. LONDON, 17th October. The Servians up to the present have maintained the positions to which they retired when the Bulgarians' attack necessitated the rearrangement of their defence. The Servians on Friday night repulsed two Bulgarian attacks on the Timok River front, with heavy losses. Fierce fighting at Doiran also resulted in a set-back of the Bulgarians..