World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Balkan Peninsula
It was necessary to develop this success at once so as to widen the
breach, and in the night of the 15th-16th the I Serbian Army (General
Boyovich) came into action, while Voivod Stepanovich pushed forward the
Jugoslav and Timok Divisions, which had been hitherto kept in reserve,
beyond the lines occupied by the assaulting divisions; this he was
able to do because General Franchet d’Espérey had insisted that they
should be kept close at hand, although the Serbian Command wished to
leave them much further back. At 15.45 hours the Timok Division passed
beyond the outposts of the 17th Colonial Division, and as the trenches
captured corresponded roughly to the Greco-Serb frontier, the Serbian
troops made a demonstration of sympathy to the French, whose splendid
victorious effort had enabled them to re-enter their fatherland. The
same day the Yugoslav Division, after a long march, attacked on the
Koziak (Hill 1550, north of the Vetrenik), captured Hills 1810 and
1825, lost the former in consequence of a counter-attack delivered
by Bulgarian reinforcements which had just arrived, but recaptured
it definitely. To the extreme left, the Franco-Serb Group and the
1st Group of Divisions came into action with the attack of the 16th
Colonial Division on Zborsko, where the trenches to the west were
captured, but the enemy managed to hold the village. In the night of
the 16th-17th, on the left of the I Serbian Army, the advance of the
11th Colonial Division began, together with elements of the 3rd Greek
Division; while to the right and left of the Cerna (east) a battalion
of Senegalese occupied Staravina, the Greeks occupied Zovik.
[Illustration: ENEMY ORDER OF BATTLE, SEPTEMBER 15, 1918.
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