Show TEUTONIC AR IES SERBIAN AND FRENCH SOLDIERS MARCH THROUGH THE SHELL RIDDLED GATES OF CITY capture of C ty comes as cl max to B itterly contested battle bulgar lans jans and germans defending defend ng every inch of ground london monastir Mo has fallen to the allies to the tile strains of the serbian national hymn the remnant of king peter peters s army at 8 0 clock sunday morning marched through the shell riddled gates of 0 the macedonian city whence a year ago they thep fled in panic and hunger before the great bulgarian steamroller steam roller at the head of the victorious troops rode crown priam alexander rejuvenator of the I 1 little ittle balkan kingdom kingdoms s soldiers soldie rs and side by side with them marchel french regiments with whose aid the first great step toward the 0 of I 1 serbia was shea the city lies e gaty five miles north west of Sal its occupation came as the climax of a bitterly tenacious battle in which attackers and defend ers rivaled in gallantry and stubborn desp ness tl TI e defense became untenable alter after the Franco Serbian forces had wrested the naturally powerful post eions on the cerna river from the bul carians and germans at the same time smashing the southern ap preaches poaches screening the gradual evacuation of 0 the city the defenders battled stub borely for every inch of ground in the cerna bend even now fighting there is in full swing the fall of monastir Mo to the allies is regarded here as the greatest achieve ment of the entente arms this fall overshadowing in moral respects even the success on the somme military experts concede that it is a victory or of moral rather than strategic import ance had the blow been struck a month or two earlier it is believed thatis that it would have had tremendous ef feet on the whole military situation in the balkans |