THE BALKANS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14892, 15 October 1918, Page 6

THE BALKANS.

FIGHTING SOUTH OF NISH.

THE SERBIAN ADVANCE.

ENORMOUS CAPTURES BY THE

ALLIES

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuters.)

London, Oct: 13

A French Eastern communique says

There was violent righting on Friday' fiouth of Nish between the Serbians1 and the enemy, reinforced by new German

divisions

Counter-attacks by Gorman Alpine corps on the left bank of the Morawa were shattered with heavy enemy

losses

East of the Morawa /the Sorbs .continue 4ko advance in the hills south of Nish.

Since September loth, including the Eleventh German-Bulgarian Army,; ■■which, was surrounded in the 'Hecero t*nd Kelhanbelen Passes and surrendered, the Allies have eaptur-od 90,000 prisoners, including IGOO officers, five generals, two thousand guns, hundreds of machine guns, and immense booty.