ASTONISHING SUCCESS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 26 September 1918, Page 5

ASTONISHING SUCCESS.

PURSUIT OF BULGARS CON-

TINUED

ENEMY FALLING BACK IN GREAT

DISORDER.

IMMENSE BOOTY SEIZED AT PRILEP.

BULGARIAN ARMIES SPLIT IN TWO.

IN FULL RETREAT ON 100-MILiJ FRONT,

LONDON, Sept. 24. British official, Salonika: Our pursuit of the Bulgar© on the MonaetirDoiran front continues. The Anglo-! Greeks have reached the lime Pazarali, ! Furka, Smekvica, where ■-. they toucli, the Franco-Greek forces. Our cavalry are heading for Strumnitza. Three I 6in. guns of a mountain battery, and I some field gune have been captured.— Auq.-N.Z. Cable Assn. and Router. A French Eastern communique states: The pursuit continues on the S whole "front from Monaetir to Veles. Enemy columns are closely pursued and harassed by our cavalry, machinegunned and bombedi by our aeroplanes, and are falling back in the greatest • disorder towards Velee, lehtip and! Strumndtza.. The Allies are driving back the enemy upon th© Albanian roads. I French'cavalry entered Prilep and' found the town intact. Immense booty ' wae_ seized. • j Franco-Serbians are progressing ■ northwards beyond the Brilep-Gradsko j road Sand threaten th© Pirilej>-Ve]efe road. In -the centre, the Serbians, who crossed the Vardar by a number of undamaged bridgea between Deinir Kapu! and Gradsko, established a big bridge- : head north of the river. . We occupy Enishoba, Kakahodvali, Voishan and Ibiiili. - _ Theright wing of the Allies; operating on both sides of the Vardar, reach-- • ed the line Petrovo, Pardovica. Chev- \ arli, Kar^-Ogular.' ; .Prisoners continue to increase., and, considerable ' undamaged booty' was : found everywhene. . . " t During the 22nd 12 guns, including! Beveral heavies, were captured, also a i number otf new aeroplanes, motor cars, | and big petrol and food dumps.—Aue.^ N.Z. Cable Assn. and ReuEer. General Desperey's astounding buo- j oesa is proving more important every > hour. The Bulgar armies are spKl in i two, and are in full retreat on 100 mile® of front. ' ' A tew detachments of General Feodorotf'e army are attempting to * delay ; the British, who have reached Kara: Ogular, north of Lake -Doiran, but General Tesofe army is £a utter din order, thronging all the roads and mountain tracks. The men are foodlese and in a lamentable condition, try- ' ing to get to the Babuna pace before the Serbians reach Veles. Several companies of German mar chine gunners were sent post haste to stop the debacle, and fired their machine guns into the back© of the flying Bulgans,—United Service. The British Jine was advanced seven miles and reached the northern shores o"r Doiran. The cavalry are pushing the Bulgars on th© Str^unnitza road, their only line of communication. The Serbian® have crossed the Vardar on a fifteen-mile front. This line of communication is-now in the hands of the Allies. Over half bf the Grad-isko-Brilep wood is held by the Serbianig, who are "pressing towards Prilep. —Reuter. " The prospects on the Salonika front depend-on,the Serbian® at the apex of the salient. If they Teach Veles they wall turn; the Babuna pai&s. It is reported the Bulgarians have a light railway from Veles to the Babuna . pass, which will help to rally them. Probably the Bulgarians will 'fall back on the Doiran front to the Belaehitza range, where they can feed their army from the Sofia-Seres railway. Only born mountaineer® capable of enduring the greatest hardships could achieve what the Serbians have done.

The British cavalry are pursuing the BtrJg&rs' along' the Strumnit'za road, which ie the only line of oommunica<tion the retreating- Bulgara are able to use.

There is a railway as far as Ishtip. It is difficult to see how the enemy can extricate (himself, as the Serbian advance guard is within striking distance off the ■road. A' certain number

of Bulgarians may join the Austriane in Albania, but it ie known the Albanians ere unfriendly to them.—Aub.N.Z. Cable A«en,