THE MACEDONIAN FRONT.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14871, 20 September 1918, Page 5

THE MACEDONIAN FRONT.

OFFEiWSSVE PROGEEDSKG

SUCCESSFULLY.

BREACH OF 25 KILOMETRES

ALLIED ADVANCE OF SEVEN

KILOMETRES

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Renter.)

London, Sept. 17

A French Eastern communique says: Ths operations begun on tho 15th inst. were continued to-day, with comI ploto success. | Tho broach made on the DobropoljeVetrer.k front was widened westward : and' eastward and now extends over a ! front of 95 kilometres to a depth of seven, kilometres. Westward- of Sokol "the Serbians car- i lied a. fortiiied zone between tin* Gradesaitza and Soka-1, and crossed the river Gradcsuitza, throwing hack in i disorder on the Razimiby bridge enemy | units who were 'caught under the airmen's machine guns-. Eastward of Vetrenik the' Allies carried the.Cheio and Golobilo massifs and the Zborsko defences, taking ov-er 400 prisoners, over '30 guns, and considerable other, booty, i The offensive continues. The Serbian i troops fought with splendid morale, enj cu;,rance, courage and self-sacrifice, and ! also in repulsing Bulgarian eounter-at- , tacks. . . ■*■ ' , i