The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-11-21
CITY FANS Before Advance Of the
Entente Allies, and Berlin Adj
hits Germans and Bulgars
Have Retreated Farther North
MADE UNTENABLE BY THE
STEADY GAIN OF SERBIANS.
Evacuation Of Town Leaves
Whole Of important Railroad In
Control Of the Troops, Under
Command Of General SarraiI
.tA..oei...d Pres. ~ FEDERAL wireless,

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u ARTS, November 2o-Mo-I
4 nastir, for months held by
the Germans and Bulgars after
the great German raid through
Serbia is once more in the hands
Of the Serbs and will become the
temporary capital of their coun-
Try as soon as arrangements can
be completed. - ~
The way for this contamination
Of a long dreamed plan was made
easy yesterday when the Germans
and Bulgarians, ,harrassed by the
amending advancing cannonadingI
Of the tSerbians and the French
and Italian allies, abandoned the
city, which they could no longer,
hold and fell back to what Berlin
describes as "a new position to
the north"
Move Not Unexpected
This move Mas been expected
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for some days. The steady,
though slow advance of the En-
tente Allies had brought them
within four miles of the center OF
the. city several days ago. Four
miles as the crow flies in these
days of great guns, is but step,
and the Germans found it So.
when, the Allies taking advantage
of the ground their infantrymen
had won for them, moved the
heavy artillery forward and began
the bombardment of the city.
Not only was the city itself I'M
der the control of the guns, but
most of the country to the north
and east, over which the supplies
for the garrison of Monastir had
to come, was also commanded by
the Allied artillery, and after
sticking it out for several days
the Teutonic commander decided
it was useless to continue to sac
rifice his men in a vain effort to
hold position which was rapidly
becoming untenable, and with
drew.
Such at least is the Berlin &C
count Of the retreat, for which
there is as yet no Allied account,
save, the fragmentary ones from
the correspondents at the Mace
doriian front.
Retreat Enforced
These intimate that the Germans and
Bnlgars were not as orderly as they are
reported to have been when they left
the city, and that the Serbians are
hard on their heels, pounding at the
fleeing Tentons with horse, foot and
guns. ~
Immediately after the announcement
Of the evacuation of Monastir came
that of the Allies, declaring that the
Serbians once more would soon have a
national capital, and one that is stu
ated upon their own soil.
But though the capture of Monastir
IS of great moral Importance it is not
as vital to the continuance of the
Allied campaign as the capture of the
railroad 70 Salonika and the supplies
which the fall Of the city puts into
the Allied hands. The fact that the
gatsway into northern Serbia is now
Ut last reopened, and that the fighting
in future, instead of being with the
advantage on the side Of the Teutonic
powers, as heretofore, is going to be
more nearly equal, with the Allies, as
time goes on, having more and more
the better Of the conditions under
which, the great struggle must be
waged, 10 also of tremendous conse-
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French Also Gaining
Farther east, along the line of the
Crrna River, the France. Serbian
armies are still pounding their way