SALONIKA ARMY.

Evening Star, Issue 16847, 24 September 1918, Page 6

SALONIKA ARMY.

SERBS’ TURNING MOVEMENT IN THE VARDAR VALLEY. BULGAR COMMUNICATIONS CUT. ENEMY SENDING REINFORCEMENTS. NEW YORK, September 23. (Received September 24, at 8.50 a.m.) Serbian troops are within four miles of the Uskub-Salonika Railway, which is the main supply lino for the Austrian, German, and Bulgarian forces opposing tho French and British army operating on the Serbians’ right. Later news says that the Serbians have cut tho railway’between Uskub and Salonika, (Received September 24, at 10.10 a.m.) Bulgarian and German reinforcements are arriving. [The Belgrade-Nish-Usknb-Sakmika Railway is Serbia’s main trunk line, running from north to south through the heart of the country, and in its southern section following the Vardar Valley from Uskub to Salonika, a distance of about 140 miles. The British and French hold the enemy astride the Vardar, while the Serbs on iheir left execute a turning movement from the west, driving the Bulgars before them and striking tho Tardar and the railway well in the rear of the Bulgar forces opposing the French and British, Negotin and Yoishan, the Serbs’ immediate objectives, are on the Vardar some 30 or more miles higher up than the Bulgar positions astride the river.]