SALONIKA OFFENSIVE CONTINUES.
BREACH W EN-BMY -LINES WIDENED..
PRISONERS AND BOOTY.
{Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Ileiiter's Telegram.) (Received Sept., 19, ,-.8. 1 55 a.m.) LONDON,, Sept. 17. A French Eastern /comimmiqae jxe- : ports : The operations begun, on the 16th were continued 1 to<fay with complete success. The breach nuwfa m the. Dob-rdpolje-Votre'nk fraht was] widened Tv:estwajds and eastwards, arid now extends over a front of twenty -fivei kilometres 'to ..a depth of seven kilometres.. _..._' Westwards of Sokol the Serbians •carried a .fortified" zone between;;Gr-adea-nitza and Oko/1, and crossed the river Gradesnitza, throwing back m disorder on the Razimbey bridge enemy units,' who were : caught: undei*. tikd airmen's machine guns. Eastwards, of .; Vetrenk the Allies "carried Chelo .andi^itfl?ilo maasifs, and .Zborsko defences", r •■''--. .Over four hundred were taken pris•oneiv. and over, thirty guns and considerable .other booty were captured". , The offensive continues. /rh& Serbian troops fought with splendid morale, . endurance, courage, andi self-sacrifice, -also m repulsing. -Bulgarian couritef-attacks.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14713, 19 September 1918, Page 5
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