With the Serbs in Macedonia

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by the First and Third Serbian Armies ; the
Second, in the Moglena region, in spite of many
attempts, found it impossible to do much
against such formidable positions as Dobropoli,
Vetrenik, and Kukurus, and there they were
obliged to be content with holding their own.
But there was no stopping the Serbians in the
Cema loop. Supported by French artillery,
throughout October they advanced inch by
inch, fighting heavily for every gain. General
Sarrail, seeing how things were going, withdrew
some of the Russians and the 17th Colonial
French Division and sent them to support the
Serbians under the command of the Serbian
Voivode Mishitch, perhaps the most brilHant
of a race of brilliant soldiers. These troops held
chiefly the western sector of the loop.
The fighting continued, always increasing in
ferocity. The Bulgarians understood only too
well that grim game of chess Field-Marshal
Mishitch was playing among the Chuke heights.
Every day the wounded came down from the
hills, on mules with cunningly contrived chairs
and stretchers, and in rough, springless supply
and ammunition carts. But every day there
was another hill gained. The Serbian Army was
forging far ahead of its Allied left ; Monastir
was coming nearer and nearer— and so long as
it fell what did the price matter ?