New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-23
Bulgarians Halted in At
tempt TO isolate Mace
donian City.
PRiSTiNA MENACED
BY BULGAR MOVE
Serbian Positions or kOSsOVo
Plain Threatened BY
I7lanking Attack.
By Cable to The Tribune. }

London. Nov. 22 The Serbs are
striving desperately to hold Monastir
from the. Bulgars sweeping down from
Prlep. Fresh rcinforcements. to-
gether with British troops rushed from
Salonica. are daily strengthening the
positions about She Macedon an fort
Iess.
II is reported that the Serbs at Mon
astir are receiving rcinforcements. and
.hat the British also are sending up
men 70 the front through which the
Bulgarian had hoped 20 drive the
Serbs across the border into Grece or
westward into Albania. Additional
forces Of men and guns are being
landed daily b. the Entcnte Allies at
Saloniea.
Despite Bulgar reports Of Monastlr'' ;
fall. the city still seems 70 be in Serb
possession. The Bulgarians, however.
instead o. attacking directly, are no"
attempting 10 work around the city
and isolate it from Salonica.
So. long as Greece does not enter
the war. its strategic value Is not worth
the cost of an assault TO the Bull
garians. and it.is felt they will rather
turn their attention to outaanking the
French line. now endangered by the
capture Of Babuna Pass.
l.. asI a
the expeditionary force have been IN
action. according to 3 dispatch from
the representative Of the British press
at Salonica. dated Sunday and received
tonight. The dispatch says
General Sarraii. commander OF the
French forces, on arriving at the scene
of operations, took up the task with
great energy.
without waiting for his whole force
20 be transported upcountry he boldly
attacked the enemy. with the purpose
Of effecting a junction with the ser
bans holding Baouna Pass. At one
moment this junction was within ten
miles OF being made. Then the Serbian
amy fell back before superior num-
bers ana Withdrew out OF reach Of the
French.
Responsibility for the failure to ef-
feet the junction rests neither with 'he
French nor the Serbians, but rather
unnn a number Of circumstances OF
which not the least was the difficulty OF
trauspor; over a single tracked, III
eouipped line of railway. which runs a
crooked course from Salonlca, WIN
Grass often growing between the rails
"As soon as the Serbiaus drew baek
from the Babuna Pass the objective OF
the French offensive disappeared, ana
thev have been content since that time
with defending their positions. ne
fighting OF the last fortnight thus mas
been merel, trench warfare.
..The Times" Vodena Greece cor
respondent. telegraphing last Thursday
aThe Bulgarian forces, halting SIX
miles east of Prilep, are reported 70
have been taken in the rear oy
Sorbians advancing from hatcnaniA
and reinforced by troops from the Al
banian frontier. ...,,o
"The pause in the bulgarian aoE aISe
n, Norastir would be explained Dy
smcb a Serbian success. Another re.
NOV, current is that the German stan
has forbidden a Bulgarian occupation
of Monastir. this operation oeihg re-
served for the Austro-German ARM.
IAN American sanitary commission
which bassed through here yesterday
ON the way to Salonica. says the Sefo,
ians. although they are outnumoered
and not so well equipped with guns
are playing delaying movement
against the Bulgarians between PriIep
and Nonastir with admirable courage
being determined to infict the great,
est possible losses on the enemy ana
10 retard his advance as long as pos
Oesnite the Serb claim of an inn
nortant victory over the Buigarians
near LeskovatZ. twenty-five mlies
south Of Nish. on the Nish-Sa-
Ioniea railroad. Sofa announces to-day
that Bulgar troops are approaching
Pristins. which. in the opinion OF
military experts here. would be almost
impossible had they suffered a severe
defeat on the Moravs ~
A dispatch received to-day from the
cerbiau Minister at Athens says that
tho Ioskoyatz battle lasted several
days. end that the Bulgarians sus-
tained enormous losses, the remnants
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