In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 35, 11 October 1915, Page 5

In the Balkans

GERMANS RAID SERVIA. THE ATTACK pN -BELGRADE. Amsterdam, October, ,10. Berlin' reports that General, Mgckensen's two armies have crossed, in their main portion, the-.Save,>nd the Danafter the- German troops of the General Kolvess had capture er] Gipsy island and the heights southwestward of Belgrade. The army has occupied the greater, part of • Belgrade, The Austro-Tungariaiis stormed the citadel and the ■•northern, part of the town, and the, Germans stormed, the new Government;,House, the ,troops advancing through the southern pari of the town. • , .•,.. • • i, General von Gall wit/, forced a crossing of the Danube at many, points in | the area below enemy everywhere southwards. ' , Whilst heavy - artillery bombarded the Serbian fortifications day and night, pontoons and materials- -,-. for bridge construction were conveyed over Hungarian railways, and made ready at suitable points as secretly as possible. The French airmen were baffled by .the devices used to conceal the transports' movements. Heavy artildroVe the Serbia'u frontier forces \ from their enWenched positions, but here again they were kept constantly under fire. German and Austrian pioneers in a number of places started preparations for' crossing the rivers under infantry cover. Storming columns who were crossing were met by the advanced guard of the Serbian army, but the Serbians were unable to maintain themselves in the wrecked positions, and the Austro-Germaiis en- . ter'ed Serbia on a front extending over fc 2oo miles.