PRESSBURG ATTACK.
CZECHOSLOVAK TRIUMPH
SILENTLY ACHIEVED
MENACE TO VIENNA
(Received 8 a.m.)
BERLIN, Aug. 18
A message from Prague states that the Czechoslovak troops to-day ocicupied the bridgeheads of Pressburg. Crossing the Danube at two points partly on rafts and partly by a bridge, they silently captured a Magyar picket, whereupon the whole garrison surrendered. —Reuter.
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Northern Advocate, 19 August 1919, Page 5
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