THE AUSTRAIN DEBACLE.
>-I>~ETY-FTYE THOUSAND CASUALTIES.
GREAT LOSSES IX GUXS AND .STORES.
'Received December :)Gth, -j..j p.m.) Pf7TROGRAT>, December 10, A Budapest correspondent writes that tho public aro horrified at the deT.iihi of liio rout of tho Austro-Hun-c-arinn forces in i~-ervia. Tho losses in the flight and the rearguard action r,fio sixty thousand killed and wounded and thirty-five thousand prisoners. More guns, provisions, and ammunition wore lost- than Servia. possessed. Tho remnants of Poi.iorek"s army, irhich is reduced to a hundred thou- • kkl men, are ijotv in JSosnia endeavour- :;:% ro re-form. The trooj>s aro ivorn 'in: by exhaustion caused by incessant itrarehing and by hunger. ROME, December ID. Ad vires-from Budapest state that the Emperor has ordered General Potiorek to be courl-martialled.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15156, 21 December 1914, Page 7
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