BALKAN CAMPAIGN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2237, 25 August 1914, Page 5

BALKAN CAMPAIGN.

AUSTRIANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES SERVIAN SUCCESSES r St, Petersburg, August 23. The Servians routed 110,000 Austrians. They pierced the Austrians' centre, wins Nipolwn's fsvourlt* tsclied, .Ibe AuatrwM fousoi in & bend of the

River Drina, with their backs to the river. They suffered enormous losses. The Servians forced an entire division into a valley, and their artillery massacred the Austrians from the surrounding heights. . AUSTRIANS RETIRE IN DISORDER. . GREAT ELATION IN SERVIA. (Rec. August 24, 10.25 p.m.) London, August 24, morning. l Nish official report states that three Servian Army Corps of a -hundred thousand men under the command of General I'otiofek crossed the River Drina and took up a position in a triangle bounded by Loznitza, Shabtitis, and Mount Tzor. . The battle began on the banks of the Jadar, near its junction with the Drina. Several Servian regiments by bayonet charges and supported by Cr'nozot guns turned the Austrians' right flank. The Austrians then retired'in disorder. The Servians carried at the bayonet point'most of tho forts protecting Visegrad, in Bosnia. All attacks on Belgrade, Obrenovatz (south-west of Belgrade), Bombrovitza, and Tokia (on the Danube near tho Rumanian border) have been definitely re T pelled. >' There is great elation in Serv'ia at the defeat by. General Potiofek of the Governor of Bosnia, who organised the persMUtloiifi of S(>rv|<iiu following upon tk« Archduke'* murder.