ime Minister. At last he had succeeded,
and he proceeded at once to join the whole of the Grecian forces to the
cause of the Allies. Of all the statesmen prominent in the Great War,
there was none more wise, more consistent or more loyal than the great
Greek statesman.

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. The Bulgarian positions which
had yielded so easily were positions which they had been fortifying for
three years, and had been previously thought to be impregnable.

On September 23d it became evident that the retreat of the Bulgarians
had turned into a rout. Notwithstanding reinforcements of Germans and
Bulgars rushed down in a frantic effort to check them, the Allied armies
were advancing on an eighty-five mile front, crushing all resistance.
The Italian army, on the west, was meeting with equal success, and the
news dispatches reported that the first Bulgarian army in the region of
Prilep had been cut off. A dispatch received by the British War Office
reported "As the result of attacks and continual heavy pressure by
British and Greek troops, in conjunction with the French and Serbian
advance farther west, the enemy has evacuated his who