SERVIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 25 August 1914, Page 8

SERVIA

AT TIIIS POINT OF THE BAYONET. SERVIA'S FOOT .SOLDIERS DO GREAT WORK. AUSTRIAN'S RETIRE IN DISORDER. BELGRADE NO LONGER THREATENED. Received 24, 10.25 p.m. London, August 24 (morning). It in ollieially reported from Nisli that three army corps, containing 100,00!) nun, mulit General Potiofek, crossed the Drina and took up a position in a triangle bounded by Doznitza, Sliabatz, and Mountizer. A battle begun on tile banks of the Wadar, near its junction with the Drina. Several Servian regiments made'jbayonet charges, supported by Creusots,'aill tinned the Austrian*' right. The Austrian* retired in disorder. The Servians carried at the point of the bayonet n;o»t of the forts protecting Yishcgrang. All attacks on Obrrovatz, Belgrade, Rombravitza, and Tek.a were definitely repelled. There is great elation at the defeat of General Potiofek. Governor of Bosnia. who oiganined the persecutions following on the Archduke's murder. octmanoecvked r.v tub .SERVIANS. CORNERED IN A VALLEY. Sit, Petersburg, August 2:!. The Servians routed 110.000 Alls, triaiw and pierced the Austrian centre, iisins Naticleon's favorite tactics. The Aunlriaiis fought in a bend of the, Diina with 'th"ir backs to the river and -uU'ercd enormous losses. Tl'-i- Servians forced the uiiire division into a valley and the artillery massacred lie Ar-trian.-. from I la,' su>" oundin { heights.