The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-11-20
ASTIR FALLS
SERBIANS STILL
IN RETREAT
Remaining Serbian Forces Must
Leave Their Own County
ACTION OF GREECE IN DOUBT
French and EuIgarians are strus-
Cling in Vicinity Of VeIes with
Advantage Claimed by Both.

London, NOV. lS.-lHe c:ltlcal Slt-
uation of the Serbian army, harassed
by the armies OF the Teutonic allies
daily is becoming more acute In the
north the fine OF the invaders is push
ing the Serbs and their Montenegrin
allies farther and farther west, and
from the maps it would appear that
their only avenues Of escape now
lead into eastern Montenegro and
northern Albania
In the south ii, as unofficial reports
have it, AIonasti has fallen into the
hands of the Bulgariaus the Serbs
here must in the face OF the great
Odds against them, either cross the
Greek border or enter southeastern
Albania through the Lake Jezero and
Lake Ochbrida regions.
To the east in the extreme south
ern portion OF the mountain kingdom,
the Bulearians have been on the of
fensiye against the French i'll the vi
cinity OF Strumitsa, but according to
Paris they were repulsed with heavy
casualties. Nothing is known OF the
operations OF the British in the
southern region against the Bulgar
ians
Whether the Greeks viii permit
the Serbs in retreat from Monastir to
enter their territory without being
interned Or whether the Anglo
French forces would be allowed to do
so in the event that they are pushed
back by the Bulearlans, has not yet
become known, Conversations be-
tween the representatives OF Great
Britain and France at Athens are said
TO be still In progress concerning
this point. while Earl Kitchener, the
British war secretary and General
Sarrail the French commander in
chief in the near east, have conferred
at Saloniki OH the entire near east
ern situation.
In addition Denys Cochin, mem
Der of the French cabinet, has had an
interview at Athens with King Con
stantine
The official communications issued
by the various war chancelleries men
tion no engagements Of noteworthy
importance except the advance in Ser
bia.
Artillery duels and sapping opera
tions continue on the line in France
and Belgium and artillery engage
ments, with here and there an infan-
try attack, on the AustroIta
front over in the east, Pctrograd
records for the Russians repulses of
Germans in attempts to cross the
Dvna and Styr rivers
4 dispatch to London newspaper
quotes the Russian premier as having
said that Russia intends to place mil
lions OF additional troops in the field
and that there was necessity for re-
doubled exertious by the people to
provide needful equipment and muni-
tions.
1t is possible that the Serbians viii
make stand on the historic plan Of
Kossoyo, east OF the Montenegrin
frontier, where more than SOC years
ago they lost their independence to
Turkey. They must do this or retire
into the mountains OF Montenegro or
northern Albania, where. although
they would be nearer help from the
Adriatic. it would be difficult to keep
them supplied, owing to the absence
OF roads.
The Austro-Germans ON the north
are now within thirty miles of the
Mitrovitza-Pristina line OF the Ser
bians, while the Bulgarians in the
south are said already to have passed
Monastir