A STREET-TO-STREET BATTLE
WHEN THE TEUTONS CAME TO BELGRADE AN AUSTRIAN VERSION By Telegraoli—Press Association—CoDyrltht London, October 24. Vienna newspapers give terrible details of the civilian, resistance at Belgrade. There was a three days' bombardment with 42-centimetre guns before the Austrians were able 'to enter the town. Then there was street-to-street fighting for twenty-four hours from houses situated on the terraces. The Austrians wore unable to discover whence tho bullets came, so they bombarded the whole residential quarter. Afterirards they stormed the houses. The civilians, including men of sixty years and upwards, women, and even children, defended them desperately with hand grenades. The Serbian losses were immense. • Pew prisoners were taken. Serbians concealed in a swamp made an equally desperate resistance to the German crossing of the Save; many of the Serbians fought until they were engulfed in the mud. The British naval guns did magnificent service, delaying the crossing for ft day.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2602, 26 October 1915, Page 5
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153A STREET-TO-STREET BATTLE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2602, 26 October 1915, Page 5
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