Austria

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 37, 30 September 1914, Page 5

Austria

EXPLOSIVE BULLETS.

SYSTEMATIC USE BY THE AUS-

TRIAN FORCES.

(Received 8.40 a.m.) Nish, September 29.

A communique reports that the Servian commanders concur in showing that the enemy are everywhere employing explosive bullets. The first ten discharges from the maxims are always explosive bullets. Twenty ppr cent of the Austrian soldier’s ammunition consists of explosives. The Austrian soldiers are stringently eruomei not to allow such munitions to fall into Servian hands, and are ordered to search the Austrian wounded and dead closely-for all the explosive bullets carried. PRISONERS QUARREL. AUSTRIANS AND GERMANS AND ALLEGED VICTIMISATION.

Petrograd, September 28.

Austriau and German prisoners have been continually quarrelling, and have now been separated. The Austrians declared that “Those beasts always put us in front, where the German officers commanded. _We were placed in the weakest positions, and if we wavered the Germans fired upon us.” i Mechanical transport makes the revictualling of the firing line comparatively easy. British officers and men are faring alike, with bully-beef, biscuits, and tinned butter.

OPERATIONS IN HUNGARY.

AUSTRIANS TO CO-OPERATE WITH

GERMANS.

Petrograd, September 29

At station after station on the Budapest line th 6 Russians are pursuing their beaten foe into Hungary. The Russians secured the railway leading to Hungary through the Dukla Pass, and also occupied Debikoa, commanding another railway over the Carpathians.

The Austrians are under the impression that they had better co-oper-ate with Germany, leaving the defence of Hungary to General Honneds, the latter having 94 battalions, 60 squadrons, and 102 field guns, totalling 150,000 men. The Russians, after crossing the Carpathians, find the chief obstacle in the marshes near the River Tisga.

AUSTRIA’S EMPEROR.

IN GOOD HEALTH, BEING FED

UP ON VICTORIES.

London, September 29,

It is said that the Emperor Francis Josef is quite well, because he is only told of victories, and no reverses. He has not boon informed of the fall of Lemberg, lest the shock should endanger his life. He works hard in signing promotions of officers, and attends church twice daily.

ASIATIC CHOLERA. OUTBREAK IN VIENNA OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED. London, September 29. Government bacteriologists have definitely established that Asiatic cholera is prevalent amongst 70,000 wounded in Vienna.