Evening star., 1915-11-23
ALLIES HOPE NOW BASED
ON A STAND AT MONASTIR
Program Calls for a French and
British Junction With
Serbians There.
REAR GUARD BATTLES HARD
Enemy Pays Tribute to Heroic and
Determined Resistance Offer
ed by the Retreatine
Army.

BERLIN. November %, by
wireless to Sayville, n. "
Notable progress for the Bull
sarlans in the region southeast OF
Pristina in Serbia, with the cap
ture OF 5000 Serbians, forty-four
cannon and twenty-five machine
guns, was announced by German
army headquarters today.
In Rear-Guard Battles.
The Teutonic troops have taken
1900 additional Serbians prison
ers and captured six cannon.
Northeast OF Pristina and north
OF Mitrovitza. the .Austro-Ger-
man forces are advancing, throw
ing back the Serbians, who are
resisting in rear-guard actions.
/ Entente Powers Encouraged.
LONDON, November c3-The latest
news from the Balkans has revived
hope in England that Monastir may
| hold out long enough to. enable the
| French and British forces to effect q
| junction with the Serbians The Rome
| and London legations of Serbia have
| received reports of a great Serbian
! these advices give neither details nor
dates there are doubts as to their inn
portance.
| 1t is now believed allied forces which
| may take refuge on Greek territory are
| hardly likely to be subjected to attack
| from the rear.
The French military position in Mace
dopia Is reported to have improved.
| The assertion is made that the Bull
garians retired to their positions after
| vain attack on the French lines.
The seat of the Serbian government
| has again been shifted. on this occa-
| sion to Prisrend. while the diplomatic
corps has moved to Petch, Montenegro.
Bulgars Attacked in Rear.
! The Times Vodena. Greece. corre-
spondent, teiegraphing last Thursday.
| says;
| THE Bulgarian forces halting six
miles east of Prilep are reported to
have been taken in the rear by Serbi
ans advancing from katchanik and
| reinforced by troops from the Albanian
frontier. The pause IN the BulSar ad-
! vance on Monastir would be explained
| by such Serbian success. Another
! report current is that the German staff
has forbidden a Bulgarian occupation
OF Mona stir. this operation Being re-
served for the Austro-G German army.
An American sanitary commission
which passed through here YESTERDAY
on the way to Saloniki says the Serbi-
| ans, although they are outnumbereJ
and not so well equipped with guns.
are playing a delaying movement
| against the Bulgarians between Prllep
and Monastir with admirable courage.
| beng determined to infiict the greatest
possible losses on the enemy and TO
retard his advance as long as possible
Serbs Fighting Desperately. :.
AUSTRIAN HEADQUARTERS. No
| v.mber 30 via London, November 23@
With the occupation of Novipazar by
| the Germans. the Sanjak has been al
most entirely wrested from the Serb
| ians, and the fighting turns more and
! more toward the ancient Kossovo bat
| tlefeld and around its principal city.
| Pristina.
The troops of the central powers are
encountering the bitterest opposition of
the entire Serbian campaign, and every
battle before it is won becomes a hand
I to-hand conflict The Serbians ap-
parentiy are planning on a final stand
on the Kossovo plain.
The Austrians and Germans estimate
the Serbian army still numbers be-
tween 10000 and 150, 900. but that IL
| is diminishing by 5000 men daily