GREAT VALUE OF CAPTURE.
BARRIER TO GERMAN EXPANSION. SOLID BASE FOR NEW OPERATIONS. Cixltcd Service. (Received November 21, 11.30' a.m.) LONDON, November 20. The recapture of Monastir will have a great military and political effect. Jt will help to re-establish the Serbian barrier to German expansion to the yTCgcan Sea, and forms a base for an offensive against the Demirkapu, which the Bulgars will have to abandon. It also dispels serious ohstables to the functioning of the Allies in .Macedonia with the Italians in Albania. ]>oinirkn|>u is an important defile through which the railway from Salonica runs north through Serliian Macedonia, it is about half way from Salonica to Kuprili, and lies 40 miles cast of Prilep.
NO CALL FOR UNDUE JUBILATION.
ALLIES STILL HAVE MANY OBSTACLES AHEAD. Renter's Telegrams. (Received November 21, 11.15 a.m.) PARIS, November 20. While there is great satisfaction at the fall of Monastiv, some experts strike a note of warning against excessive jubilation, owing to the immense difficulties confronting a further substantial Allied advance.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 868, 21 November 1916, Page 7
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169GREAT VALUE OF CAPTURE. Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 868, 21 November 1916, Page 7
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