AUSTRIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 74, 17 August 1914, Page 8

AUSTRIA

'• A DELiIIEUATri 1.1 K." AI'STIIIA AXXO', ED WITH BRITAIN. •. Received Hi, 5.5 p.m. l-toi-ie, August 15. An official coimmmicui on from Vi\ una regarding Britain's deciiiratidii of war mi Austria s;iys that, it is evident that i'riisii.'i's alleged r.-asoi is not only an iirhitvurv aiteratiou tf facts, but a, deliberate lie. She ha::, lightly broken o t'.'a-iil'e'ial friendship in order to support i-'niisce. DESTROYED BY HER OWN COUNTRY. AUSTRIAN STEAMER SUNK. Received Hi, 5.5 p.m. Trieste, August IS. The Austrian Lloyd steamer liar of CauUch, from f.iissmgrandc, with three hundred persons aboard, struck a mine believed to have been laid by the A".strians in the Adriatic Sea, and sank. One hundred and thirty were saved. Twenty bodies have already been recovered. Trieste, Later. It is officially reported that Hfl wee ! drowned in the Baron Gautsch, and IS7 saved. AUSTRIAN'S REPULSED. WITH CONSIDERABLE LOSS ON* SERVIAN FRONTIER. Received Hi, f>.s p.m. Nish, August 15. Four hundred thousand Anstrians made a general attack on the night of August 12 along the, whole Servian frontier, and were repulsed with considerable loss at Tectia, near the Roumanian frontier. The Austrians crossed the Save near Shaoatz, and cross the T)rina near Lodznita, which is still resisting. It is officially stated that the Aus.trians were repulsed near Belgrade. Their success at Shabatz was due to numerical superiority. SUPPORTS FOR GERMANY'S LETT. TO DEAL WITH FRENCH ADVANCE. Received 17, 12. ssi.m. London, August 15 (evening). It is reasserted that Austria is despatching largo supports for Germany's left wing .besides concentrating in GaUcia. The army operating against Servia lias been much reduced.