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Fhotograph by Herbert Corey 



WHERE NATURE MAY BE EITHER AEEY OR ENEMY 



The picture gives an excellent idea of the country through which the Serbian army forced 

 the Bulgarians during the drive at Monastir. The mountain in the distance is Sokol. 



at hand. They kept to themselves or in 

 little groups of twos and threes. At 

 night scores of tiny fires would sparkle 

 in the open land on either side of the 

 Monastir road, where the paired com- 

 rades were cooking their evening meal. 

 They marched badly, slowly, slouching, 

 their old shoulders bowed under their 

 packs, their grizzled faces deeply lined. 

 Yet these men were the cutting edge of 

 the weapon that bent back the Bulgarian 

 lines. 



One division — the Morava — remained 

 in the aggressive for 95 days without 

 rest. During that period they had but 



one trench — the front trench. They had 

 no second line, no reserve, no rest camp. 



One regiment of the Choumadia di- 

 vision lost 1,100 out of 1,400 men in tak- 

 ing Vetternik Mountain, and then held 

 that mountain under fire from the Rock 

 of Blood, which dominated the summit, 

 for 20 days until relief came. Even then 

 the men of the regiment which had been 

 so nearly wiped out did not go to rest. 

 They stayed on Vetternik. 



In the taking of Kaymakchalan half 

 of some organizations were killed out- 

 right. They were enabled to do these 

 things partly because of the experience 



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