Servia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 94, 11 August 1914, Page 5

Servia

250,000 VETERANS UNDER ARMS. TROOPS CROSS THE FRONTIER. London, August 0 (morning). The Daily Telegraph's correspondent reports from Nish, via Salonika, that the Austrians have so far failed to invade Servia. Great enthusiasm prevails, and the officers now expect to realise their national aspirations, take Bosnia and Herzegovina, and .secure a port "ii the Adriatic. All men between eighteen and fifty-live are pressed into service. The mobilisation yielded 100.000. Many raw recruits, who need officers and clothes, wore being formed into bands of irregulars', and thrown into Bosnia in order to foment a revolution. The actual army numbers 230,000 veterans of two campaigns. Concentration is mainly directed towards the SorboHungarian frontier on the Danube, presumably to junction with the Russians. Stnff officers announce that the concentration was completed in August 7, when a forward movement was initiated. The Servian mobilisation has been completed. The Servians entered Bosnia near Prioboja to cut off tho retreat of n body of Austrians. The main body has retired to Vislmegrad, which they are fortifying.