PROGRESS OF THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2230, 17 August 1914, Page 5

PROGRESS OF THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN

RUSSIAN MOBILISATION COMPLETING TWO AND A-HALF MILLIONS SQQN TO CROSS FRONTIERS ■ (Rec. August 16, 5.5 p.m.) xt ■£~. ... St. Petersburg, August 15, Mobilisation has been virtually completed. Soon a million mil cross the Austrian frontier, and li million the German frontier. The rabidity and effectiveness in carrying out th ß plans of General Jilinsky, the Commander of the Bus-: sian fourteenth Army Corps, surprised foreign observers. cji -j' B / 8 ™ only six ATm y CoT P s °n Germany's eastern frontier, and the brunt ot the defence must faU on the and Landsturm. ' (Rec. August IG, 5.5 p.m.) « imi -d • , , sl - Petersburg, August 15. . M 6 Russians have destroyed the railway and telegraph lines at eleven points in the neighbourhood of Tilsit, in North-east Prussia." ' ' ' ' ' .v f t°^ a $ ?S?? d , Kriutchkoff has been .decorated for killing eleven Germans Tiriutehkoff had" sixteen'■wounds," and his horse" eleven. SERVIA AND MONTENEGRO TAKE THE OFFENSIVE. m, .-. . ' , , Rome, August li. , . -"-ne beTvians and Montenegrins are talcing the offensive at all; points. Ausman.detachments" orossed the TRive'r" Save by means" of boats near Obrenovatz, twenty miles west of Belgrade, but fell Into an ambush,'the> majority being mastered ..or . e4pt.ured.-"Tte and' Sydney "Sun" Services.;' ' ' ' , xt x ' '«.'. r, Cettinje, August U. . Montenegro officially denies the report of her intention to occupy Mount Tarabosch, or'to; assume.therpfteusive against' Albania. Tito Government' 'also' denies ene occupation .of Scutari. "• ' • \ ' ""' ' "'' '- AUSTRIANS ATTACK SERVIANS IN FORCE. (Eec. August 16, 5.5 p.m.). • r ' ..•,,„ '" ' ' •"■"" Nish, August 15. ■» ■ • *?',„-.SflSffi ■ thousand Austrians made a general attack on tho'night of •t U .Wf- • fis J v "'??' 0 Servian 'frontier and were repulsed with considerable loss *•■ >mi $' -5 • Btunahian frontier ' " — "~~ ""'- ,^?.'Austrians crossed "'tlßr Save', near Shabatz, forty miles west of Belgrade, and crossed the Drininear lodznita, which- is. still resisting." '"'" '"" - (Eec. August 16, 5.5 p.m.) T4 . . a. ■~ i Nish, .August 15. it 13; officially reported the Austrians were repulsed Bear Belgrade. Their suwte? at; Shabatz'was "due to numerical superiority. ''*■ '■ " -"' '"■' The Se™on'troopsi have 'ocoupied'''"iiini' Tillage's'in Bosnia.