Austria v. Servia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 7, 26 August 1914, Page 5

Austria v. Servia

Result Of the fight at

DRINA.

SERVIAN CAPTURES AND AUSTRIAN W'OU'ND'EDS.

Nish, August 25

| The Servians' captured 4500 prisoners, 53 guns, 114 ammunition wagons, and large quantities of stores and rifles on the Drina.

Other accounts state • that 20,000 Austrian wounded were conveyed to •Jerajevo, Agram, Budapest, and Vienna.

St. Petersburg, August, 25

The newspaper Novoe Vremya states that the Austrians had railways to assist in concentration. Servia had nono, but the people responded magnificently to the call. One Servian division marched 250 miles in eight days, and fought after a night's sleep. The Austrians massed five army corps (205,000 men), and the fight lasted for five days. The Austrians put the Slav regiments in the forefront, and the Hungarians behind. Tens of thousands were slain, the Slav regiments suffering most. The Bth Prague Corps was practically annihilated, and the 94th, the 9th, and the ' 102nd completely destroyed. The Serbs used hand grenades, each of which disabled five men. The grenades were a groat success, though they failed- the Japanese at Port Arthur.

Other reports stato that tho Crown Prince commanded tho Servian force. His whole scheme was to draw the Austrians over tho Drina to tho battlefield, where the Servians defended under Medesh Pasha in 1806.

The Drina being extremely rapid, no fugitives were able to swim across. SERVIAN INVASION PREDICTED. London, August 25. Tho Times, in a leader referring to Austria's announcement that she is abandoning offensive operations in Servia, says that "it is in consequence of the overwhelming defeat. We don't expect a similar announcement from Nish, and look for a prompt invasion by Servians. Thus, in the first phase of the war, the pride of Austria has already undergone ineffaceable humiliation. If the Austrians cannot face Servia, what will they do when the Russian legions sweep over Galicia?"