GREAT SERBIAN VICTORY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 23 October 1916, Page 5

GREAT SERBIAN VICTORY

BULGASS JROUTED

LONBQN;, Get. 21f,-. Mr Ward Pxice, describing the Capture^ of Brod,, Gardilovo,, and Veliselo, isays' that the offensive .^uipas'sed the Serbians'.. own expectations. The Bul.garians possessed every, advantage. '£he .Ser.bs^charged .slopes so steep that ±he Bulgarians .wsere able lo roll rocks : down "on. the. attackers. The Serbian infantry hfijganto,press onwards at 10 in the morning, while -their t guns were pounding the - crest. Short, sharp 'bayonet .clashes followed, and the first rocky peak w,as • won. The- Serbian gunners bombarded the next crest, ttmee fcttrafeea fav&s ibeyonfl, :and then i the Bulgarians were seen to be bolting. I A few ininutes later the flags carried by the foremost Serbians were waved ■fcriirmpTiati'tly on the summits of the j captured /height.; So©n the Bulgarians, •who -were Tiolding trenches fronting Veliselo, began to retire, the/SaS'bian.s j pressing'in pursuit. 'Suddenly, beyond Veliselo, p6ured a stream of fugitives of all kinds, "irifa'ntry, cavalry and transports, regardless of military deeorum,/hustling along imtil they dis- • appeared on €he sky line beyoria reach {-of €he Serbian -shells.

It was a thorough-going, rapid ron+,. Veliselo» was in Serbian Tian'ds by noon, a-nd Brod Tell imiTvediate'ly after. T^y night the new Serbian line "beyond iihe Cerna included GradiloVo.