For more than a year the Allied armies facing Bulgaria remained upon the
defensive, when, suddenly, on the 16th of September, 1918, in the midst
of the wonderful movements that were forcing back the German armies in
France, a dispatch was received from the Allied forces in Macedonia. The
Serbian army, in co-operation with French and English forces, had
attacked the Bulgarian positions on a ten-mile front, had stormed those
positions and progressed more than five miles. On the next day news was
received that the advance was continuing; that the Allies had occupied
an important series of ridges, and had pierced the Bulgarian front; that
more than three thousand prisoners had been captured and twenty-four
guns. The movement took place about twelve miles east of Monastir and
the ridge of Sokol, and the town of Gradeshnitsa were captured by the
Allied troops.
It soon became evident that one of the most important movements in the
whole war was being carried on. The Bulgarian armies were crumbling, and
the German troops sent to aid them had been put to flight. The Allied
troops had advanced on an average of ten miles and were continuing to
advance. The Serbs, fighting at last near their own homes, were showing
their real military strength. Four thousand prisoners had been taken,
with an enormous quantity of war supplies.
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