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were painfully frequent, hours were taken to
move a convoy a mile or two, and it was a
of hun-
frequent occurrence to see long strings
dreds of vehicles held up while one disobliging
lorry was got out of difficulties. Motor-lorries,
like mules, always seem to give most trouble in
places where nothing else can pass.
Various attacks were made by the French,
Russians, and Italians in the plains which
stretch onward from Fiorina to Monastir, and
on the heights to the west. But no real success
attended these efforts. The Bulgars remained
on their fortified frontier line, and in consequence
the brunt of the fighting shifted once more to
the Serbian Front, which was reinforced by what
the French called their heavy light artillery.
The British forces, who all this time had been
making things as uncomfortable as possible for
the enemy by raids, stunts, patrol engagements
and air bombing, did what they could to help.
General Milne writes : ''In order further to
assist the progress of our Alhes towards Monas-
such a continuous offensive
tir by maintaining
as would ensure no transference of Bulgarian
troops from the Struma front to the west, I
now issued instructions for operations on a
more extensive scale than those already reported.
In accordance with these the General Officer
Commanding on that front commenced opera-