RAPID SERBIAN PUSH.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14875, 25 September 1918, Page 5

RAPID SERBIAN PUSH.

JFIFTY MILES COyERED.

ONLY LINE OF EETEEAT HEAVILY I - BOMBED.

: (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association* ; (Received Sept. 24, 10.15 p.m.) , London, Sept. 23. ' The Sorbian push is more r_apid than was expected. The enemy's only road of rotreat is up the Kfisturine-Strum-nitza road, v,hich is being heavily bombed. We nre gathering a lot of booty which there has not- vc-t bpen time to count. Important fVi-^onments are. expected. The Serbians on Pr^'n'-^iv and 9ur day advanced nearly twpr^ miles. Their total advance since iW '.■ tensive be^an is nearly fifty miles. ' T]ia numbpr of prisoners is ,-now between 9000 and 10,000. Over 120 guns, ha-ve been eapturofl. ' A division, of cavalry reached the

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Vardar between Krivolak and .the Iron Gate, Infantry followed closely and crossed the river. Tho cavalry captured Vozartsi and • Kavadar, cutting the road communications botween Prilep and Krivolak.

.The Serbians during th o week-end captured over twenty villagesl. The retreating Bulgars shamefully treated" the Serbian • population, and transported the leading inhabitants into Asia Minor.

As a direct consequence of the Serbian victory and the Allies' pressure elsewhere, one-third of the Serbian territory has been liberated, the whole of the German and Bulgar forces being compelled to retreat from Monastir to the Vardar. It is anticipated that the enemy will take up tEe Babuna-Vardar-Krivolak- Avista line.