AUSTRIAN MESSAGE
HOW THE ENEMY CROSSED THE FRONTIER By MeEraph—Press Association—Copyright Amsterdam, October 10. • An Austrian communique says: "The Austro-Hungarian and German flags aro flying at ICouak. The enemy was watching the banks of the river above and below Bolgrade. They could nowhere resist us. ' .
"Whilst heavy artillery bombarded the Serbian fortifications day iand. night, pontoons and materials for bridge construction wero conveyed on. the 'Hungarian Tailways to be ready/at suitable points, and this was done as secretly as possible, and tho French . airmen wero baffled by the dovices used to conceal tho transports and movements of heavy artillery. : . "We drove the Serbian frontier forces from their entrenched poeitionsj but here again they Kept constantly under fire. The' German-Austrian pioneers in a number of places started preparations for crossing tho rivers under infantry covej-.' The storming columns crossing were met by the advanced guard of the Serbian Army, but tbo Serbians were unable to maintain themselves in their wrecked positions. The Austro-Germans entered Serbia on a front extending over 250 miles." v:
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2589, 11 October 1915, Page 5
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172AUSTRIAN MESSAGE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2589, 11 October 1915, Page 5
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