On Tuesday came the news of a great Servian victory
at Mona stir, by means of which the last coherent portion of the Turkish western army was destroyed. The action seems to have been one of the bloodiest and most hard-fought of the war, and it raged, we are told, over a front of some thirty miles. A body of 80,000 Turks held the Turkish positions, and they were attacked by about an equal number of Servians. So fierce, however, was the Servian attack that the Turks were everywhere beaten and the town and a large number of men captured. At first it was stated that practically the whole of the Turkish army had been taken prisoners, but it now seems that this was a mistake. The net was not drawn completely round the position, and though large numbers of the Turks surrendered, equally large numbers got away, but merely as a broken mob and not as military units. We can understand the Servians not being on the whole disappointed with the result. The charge of feeding 50,000 prisoners is a very severe one for a small State. We may add that the Servian troops have reached Alessio on the Adriatic.
