ALLIED ADVANCE IN BALKANS

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13693, 7 October 1916, Page 6

ALLIED ADVANCE IN BALKANS

SERBIANS PRESSING ON MONASTIR. BRILLIANT CO-OPERATION AGAINST BULGARS. ('•The Tines" Service.) LONDON, October 5. • The Salonika correspondent .of the Echo de Paris states that seven Serbian villages had been liberated by nightfall on ■Wednesday, and the whole Bulgarian army was in full retreat towards new lines prepared about five miles south of Monastir. After defeating the Bulgarians oil Mount Nidza, the Serbians carried out a lightning offensive, occupying Kenali, with the Russians on (heir left, while the French infantry and artillery, holding the centre, pushed forward upon the Monastir plain. (Australian olid New Zealand Cable Association.) LONDON, October 5. A French communique says: The Balkan battle continues favourably along the whole front. The Allied advance guard have begun to cross the Cerna, in the region of Dobrovani and Brod. '"' ■■■■.■•- BRITISH: ADVANCE UP THE STRUMA. a - —u HOME REGIMENTS DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association,) LONDON, October 5. The War Office Salonika report states: Fighting at Jcnakoj ended on Wednesday with our complete success. We occupied .i the whole'.village north and south'of the Seres road, and spent the remainder of Wednesday consolidating our new positions from the Orljak bridge along the Seres road to Jenakoj, thence back to the river through the Karakaboi villages, The Lowland. Scottish and Irish battalions especially distinguished themselves in the recent lighting, and the enemy suffered heavily.