SERB ARMY INTACT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8306, 26 November 1915, Page 5

SERB ARMY INTACT.

my'lXG. TO PIERCE BULGAE

FRONT

.. LONDON, Nov«3b«r.2s. - Latest telegrams from Serbiii stato' that the situation is most bnriojuS. Tho Serbians' havo lost their hold ■of the . histortical Kossovo Plain, vvhero iiglxt - : ing:'coiitiml€s;. , The Bulgarians claim ' ,to;hg,ve captured many prisoners. -TSV- • Serbian-victory at Leskovai-z. "was only, a partial success, and did not .stop' the enemy's advance. It was followed by sanguinary battles between, the Serbian 1 . < rearguards and the Bulgarian van- 1 * " guards north of Monastir, neither sido giving nor asking quarter. Official Serbian accounts of the fighting state that the Serb forces are intact,: and their commissariat working well under French supervision. Tho ' Serbian morale is unaffected by the re- \ verses, arid the strategic situation is not beyond redemption. The Serbians continue on the defensive in defiles and in the mountains in order to tire their adversaries and permit the Allies to concentrtate while still retaining their retreat westwards to Albania. Tho Serbians are attempting- -to pierce tho Bulgarian front towards Uslrab, in tho hope that the British and French will advance in the direction of. Kuprili, necessitating the retreat of i'lie Bui-

garians from the western part of New Serbia. \

The Salonika eorrespondest of tho "Paris Journal" telegraphs that Gen-

eral Boyovitch has decided to maintain a mere curtain of troops ugahet' tiie Austro-Ge'rmans, and is ht*riing Jhis 90,000 against 120,000 Bulgars guard-

ing the defiles at Kachanik in 'Order to junction with the Allie-s.