The bombing has so far done nothing to halt the Serbian advance through Kosovo province and the flood of refugees into neighboring countries.

Hostilities had officially ceased on 2 December 1912, although unofficially Serbian and Greek advances continued.

In terms of policy, the aim of the plan would be stop the Serbian advance on Bihac and discourage Croatia from entering the war.

But Mr. Clinton's refusal has doomed the French proposal for resisting the Serbian advance on the ground.

As for his strategy, he said it was to try to defend villages as long as possible, as a conventional army would, to delay the Serbian advance.

The taking of Scutari removed the only obstacle to the Serbian advance in the remainder of Ottoman Albania.

Still, few would argue, especially in light of the Serbian advance outside Sarajevo, that collective security has functioned well.

The Bulgarians did not lose territory after the battle but were unable to stop the Serbian advance towards Macedonia.

At least 8,000 Muslim refugees of a total population of 180,000 people in the Bihac pocket have fled the Serbian advance, the officials said.

Four Apache attack helicopters backed the unit, firepower that Dutch military officials say could have slowed or stopped the Serbian advance on Srebrenica.