GALLANT SERVIANS.
STILL HOLDING OUT
THE INVINCIBLE TEN THOUSAND,
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association
(Press Assn. —Reed. 5.5 p.m.)
PARIS, November 29. 1 •"Lβ Journal's" correspondent at Bucharest narrates that in the dead of night *he and a companion crossed the Danube in a small boat and landed in Servia. They were welcomed by a score of Servian officers in uniforms, magnificent though in tatters. They belonged to bands of Servian soldiers, numbering ten thousand who escaped to the mountains and still carry on guerilla warfare against detachments of the Austro-Germans and Bulgarians and they recently captured the town of Gornimlanovatz on the banks of the Danube. All 'Aust.roGerman efforts to suppress the valiant ten thousand have failed. (A French aeroplane recently brought a Servian general from Salonika with instructions. The general afterwards escaped in an aeroplane.
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Northern Advocate, 1 December 1916, Page 3
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