SERVIA.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 61, 12 March 1915, Page 7

SERVIA.

TRESH AUSTRIAN ATTACK EXPECTED. ACTIVE MILITARY PREPARATIONS. The Serbian array still hae a strength of 220,000 men, well supplied with war material and food. One ol the diplomats at Xish said: — "The lull in the operations, after the failure of the Austrian offensive in December, has given the Serbian Government an opportunity to put its forces into good shape. I will not say that the army is as good to-day as it was in Angust, but it has greatly profited by the check to the Austrians seven week 3" ago." NEW ATTACK AWAITED. Serbia has recently imported much ■war materia!. The food supply in Serbia is ample for the army, but medicaments and sanitary materials are icarce. A new Austro-German. *ampaign is believed to be imminent. Women and children are aiding in digging trenches. The re-entry of King Peter and his forces into Belgrade, a.fter the Austrian evacuation is described in a lettor from itme. Marincovieh, wife of the Serbian Minister of Commerce, made public today. Mme. Marineovich writee: — . KING WELCOMED BACK.. "A large part of the population of Belgrade had fled, but when King Peter •nd his army entered the city the people flocked back to greet them, although shrapnel shells were dropping in fihe city from the retreating Austrians. The reining of the King and his army caused gTeat rejoicing. The streets through which the troops passed were lined with «heering crowds, who strewed the -way *rith flowers.

The King made his way to the tathedral. where mass was to Tio said. There wpre no priests, and the King of *ie Serbians himself read the service. Probably no more impressive scene has •»er been witnessed in Belgrade." Most of the 800,000 refugees wholbaTO fioeked to the southern part of the country. she says, are sleeping in the under midwinter condition*.