Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 32, 24 September 1914, Page 5

Balkans

SIEGE OF SERAJEVO.

PRINCE GEORGE OF SERVIA STRUCK BY A BULLET. zJr.j. ic -

Rome, September 23

A report from Nish states that Montenegrins and Servians formed a firing line about Serajevo, within a radius of eight kilometres (about live miles), The siege has begun.

Prince ~ Ctoorgo —trf -■ Jr Sei i vfa r -*-IS-"in hospital. A bullet struck him in. the chest while he was leading a charge.

Sarajevo attained notoriety not long ago as the scene of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife. It is the capital of "Bosnia-Herzegovina, the seat of the provincial government, and (in peace-time) the headquarters of the Austrian 15th Army Corps. It lies in a narrow valley and on the slopes of partly wooded hills rising to a height of 5250 feet. The numerous- minarets and the little houses standing in gardens give the widely scattered town a picturesque appearance which, however, the numerals modern buildings threaten to obliterate. The inhabitants number 51,870, that number including 18,460 Mohammedans and 6400 Jews. There is a garrison of 500 men. The population of Bosnia-Herzegovina as a whole is mostly Slavonic (Croato-Ser-vian).

SATISFACTION IN ROHM AN lA. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Bucharest, September 22. The Roumanian papers express satisfaction at the success of the Allies.