FIGHTING ON HILLS OF BELGRADE

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 89, 13 October 1915, Page 7

FIGHTING ON HILLS OF BELGRADE

GERMANS THROWN BACK INTO THE SUBURBS GOOD WORK OF BRITISH GUNS (Received October 13, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 12th October. The Servian Legation announces that the Bulgarians since last night are attacking in the direction of Vlasina, eastward of Vranja. All the attacks were heavily repulsed. PARIS, 12th October. The Matin's correspondent at Nish says that the Servians on Sunday morning regained advantages and seized some excellent positions. They threw back the Germans into the suburbs of Belgrade. The Germans threw 50,000 shells into the town, not sparing the hospitals or churches. They destroyed the Synagogue, burying hundreds of Jewish families who were taking refuge in the vaults. The British heavy guns inflicted severe losses and sank two monitors. The fighting continues on the hills about Belgrade. French artillery are co-operating with the British and Servian. ENEMY THROWN ACROSS THE DANUBE. (Received October 13, 8.30 a.m.) NISH, 12th October. A communique states : Our troops are admirably resisting the Austro-Ger-man onslaught. Our offensive between the Mlava and Morava rivers threw back the enemy across the Danube. A detachment which reached Smederevo was annihiliated. 'A few who endeavoured to escape were drowned in the Danube. We repulsed all the German attacks on the Drina-Save front. HEAVY LOSSES IN MACKENSEN'S ARMIES. (Received October 13, 9 a.m.) PARIS, 12th October. The lAustro-German attack on Servia has already caused heavy losses to General yon Mackensen's army. . It is a clear gain to the Entente when the enemy multiplies his battlefronts the very moment when his effectives are beginning to be exhausted. GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS IN SUPREME COMMAND. LONDON, 12th October. It is reported that the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia is going to Nish "to take supreme command in the Balkans. THE CROSSING INTO SERVIA CIVILIANS SLAIN AT BELGRADE NISH, 12th October. Considerable forces are operating at Obrenovatz, south of the Save, about thirty miles westward of Belgrade, where an entire regiment was annihilated with the bayonet after the Servian artillery had destroyed a bridge of boats. The main enemy forces were engaged at Belgrade. The inhabitants were taken by surprise and hurriedly fled. The enemy's artillery swept the roads leading out of the city, and many civilians, mostly women and children, perished. Refugees speak of a "hell of fiTe" and the terrible sufferings of the inhabitants. The Servian commander states that the ground where the Germans landed at Ram was so covered with corpses that he could not advance without marching over them. Stubborn fighting continued on Saturday in the suburbs south of Belgrade. OFFICIAL SERVIAN NEWS. NISH, 12th October. A communique says : We repulsed four attacks on the Zabregie-Obrenovatz sector, with great enemy losses. During the Belgrade fighting we sank an enemy gunboat and badly damaged another which was beached near Semlin. All attacks on our positions on the Drinft, before Badovintzi, vero repulsed with heavy losses. The High Commissioner reports • — LONDON, 12th October, 1.10 a.m. ' Servian official. — Our troops are vigorously resisting the onslaught of the Austro-Germans, whose heavy artillery caused formidable and sanguinary combats. The losses were enormous on both sides. Near Deanikapu, Bulgarian bands dynamited a railway bridge on the Salonika-Uskub line. , (Press Association.) A GERMAN REPORT. LONDON, 12th October. A Berlin communique states : Further battles have developed in the Drina region. The crossing of the Danube has been completed between Shabatz and Gradiste. The Austro-Germans captured the heights between Zarkovo and Mirijevo, south of Belgrade. They stormed the Anatem position near Ram. Altogether, the Germans took 1556 prisoners and captured seventeen guns. (Received October 13, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 12th October. A Berlin communique states : We are making good progress on the entire Balkan front. We stormed the town and fortress of Semendna yesterday. CAPTURE OF GUNS AT BELGRADE. AMSTERDAM, 12th October. An Austrian communique states : After we had dislodged the Servians south-east and south-west of Belgrade, nine naval guns, twenty-six field guns, a large quantity of material, and 600 prisoners were captured at Belgrade. BULGARIANS BEGIN ATTACK FIGHTING COMMENCED ON MONDAY LONDON, 12th October. The Athens correspondent of The % Times states that the Bulgarians, at noon yesterday, began an attack on Servia at Gariboghary, towards Kniazhevatz, twenty-five miles north-east of Nish. ( DISPOSITION OF BULGARIAN ARMIES. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received October 13, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 12th October. The Times correspondent at Bucharest states that eleven Bulgarian divisions, forming three armies, are under the command of Prince Boris. 'Die first army under General Bogaceff, is to cut the railway from Nish to Salonika; the second, under General Tonceff , is watching Greece ; the third, under General Teotiocoff, has for its objective Sumec, and is watching Rumania. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received October 13, 8 a.m.) ( LONDON, 12th October. The Paris Journal states that Bulgarian cavalry, officered by Germans, is concentrating at Kustendil (on the Sofla-Uskub railway, ten miles east of the Servian frontier). (Press Association.) GERMAN HEAVY GUNS. LONDON, 12th October. Bucharest telegrams statethat the Germans have brought to Servia many of their heaviest guns, including 12-inch. They used asphyxiating gases at Shabatz.