With the Serbs in Macedonia

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donian mountains can. At their foot is the
broad plain of the Moglena. The Bulgars were
on top, and between Pojar and Strupino they
made an attempt to debouch upon the plain,
which, if successful, would have turned the
Vodena Pass, and been a dangerous threat to
the west and north. Here, however, they more
than met their match. They retired hurriedly,
leaving four hundred dead upon the ground,
and encouraged by this initial success the
Serbian right made a push on its own account
and succeeded, in spite of violent counter-
attacks, in improving its position.
The Serbian left, however, was still in diffi-
culties. Outnumbered in men and outclassed
in armament, the Danube Division of the Third
Army had been driven back to the environs of
Banitsa, a village among another tangle of hills,
fiercely contesting every inch of the ground
they yielded. Banitsa, however, had to be given
up, and Gornichevo, Eksisu and Sorovitch
followed. Nine field guns and some ammunition
limbers had to be left by the Danube
Division at Gornichevo, not because their
retreat was in any sense a rout, but simply on
account of the impossibly bad roads which did
not permit them to be taken away.
Once more the mck of the Serbs was dead out.
Taken by surprise and outnumbered, especially