With the Serbs in Macedonia

146 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
proached to within two hundred yards of the
enemy's trenches on the crest of Hill 1050, and
the Vardar Division pursued the enemy to
Paralovo. On the same day, the 20th, the 17th
French Division advanced one and a half
kilometres and took Dobromir. The counter-
attacks on the Vardar Division which, on the
2ist, followed this uncomfortable pressure on
the enemy's left, were successfully beaten off.
But the failure of the Allies to continue to
advance on their left and centre, bad weather
and the growing strength of the enemy, began
to have their natural effect upon the exhausted
Serbs on the Right. However, on the 26th
November the Morava Division and the French
2nd Zouaves made themselves masters for the
time of Hill 1050, after a bloody struggle,
followed by several determined counter-attacks.
Though there was no actual pause in the fighting,
though every day one side or the other
attacked or counter-attacked among that maze
of cruel hills, now gaining or losing at the cost
of much brave blood some slippery, rocky
height that gave its possessors a momentary
advantage, there to all intents and purposes
the pursuit and the fighting that followed the
taking of Monastir came to an end.
There can be no question of to whom the fall
of Monastir was due. It was a Serbian victory,