The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history; . udy sugeestcd a plan of attack whichappeared to meet both the strategic and tacticaldifficulties. . The Vardar cut the Macedoniafront into two almost equal parts, but with thisdifference between the sectors, that every attackin the west would come to an end at the oblique strike at the point which appeared st
The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history; . udy sugeestcd a plan of attack whichappeared to meet both the strategic and tacticaldifficulties. . The Vardar cut the Macedoniafront into two almost equal parts, but with thisdifference between the sectors, that every attackin the west would come to an end at the oblique strike at the point which appeared strongest, butwhost- would give it the greatest chancesfor decisive exploitation of an initial success. Ifthe offensive, in short, were to caro he peaksof Uobropolje, Sokol, and Veltenik and the de-fensive system of Koziak, the assailants wouldemerge along the shortest line to the Xardar, thusturning the curve of the Tcherna, which would becrossed more easily than in the lower valley.—General J. W. Malleterre, Bailie of Macedonia(.\eu> York Times Current History, May iqip).—The key to the Bulgarian front was Uskub, for,if that place were won. the communications wouldbe cut between the two parts of the enemy advance against it by the narrow trench of. SCALE or MILES MACEDONIAN FRONT. 1S18 line of the Vardar as in an impasse, whereas. anattack on the east would turn the Vardar andthreaten the direct routes to Sofia by way of theStruma. But the Vardar valley was also thegreat communicating highway between the CentralEmpire and the Macedonian front by way ofoccupied Serbia and Nish. . The region betweenthe Tcherna and Vardar was particularly arduous;mountain peaks hardly scaleable, made it easy todefend. The Bulgars had a solid hold on theSokol, the Dobropolje, the Veltenik, the Ozena. Itseems that the Bulgarian and probably the GermanGeneral Staffs had cxcl ded the possibility of asuccessful attack upon any of these peaks alongthe Tcherna and that they
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