SARAJEVO OCCUPIED
ABANDONED BY AUSTRIANS AN IMPORTANT CENTRE Tho Prime Minister has received the following message from the High Commissioner :— London, September 22, 3.30 p.m. • Reliable.—Servians and Montenegrins have occupied Sarajevo, which was abandoned by the Auatrians after an overwhelming defeat. (Kec. September 24, 0.35 a.m.) Rome, September 22. A report from Nish says that the Montenegrins and Servians have formed a firing line about Serajevo with a radius of eight kilometres. The first Austrian sortie was repulsed, and the siege begun. Prince George of Servia is in hospital with a bullet wound in the chest, wnich he received while leading a charge. Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and was the scene of the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand which precipitated the war. It is a town of about '52,000 inhabitants, of whom 19,000 are Mohammedans and 6500 Jews. It was the headquarters .of the Austrian 15th Army Corps, and has a garrison of 5000 men. It lies in a narrow valley watered by the Miljacka, and on the 'slopes of. partly wooded hills.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2263, 24 September 1914, Page 5
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178SARAJEVO OCCUPIED Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2263, 24 September 1914, Page 5
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