SERVIANS EXPECT TO REALISE ASPIRATIONS.
COUNTRY SO FAR FREE FROM INVADERS.
MOBILISATION YIELDS 450,000 TROOPS,
ATTEMPT -TO FOMENT REVOLUTION IN BOSNIA, (Received August 10, 10,5 p.m.) London, August 9. Tho Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Nish, communicating via Salonika, states that the Austrians have so far failed to inVade Servia. Great enthusiasm prevails, and Servian officers now expect to realise their national aspirations regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to secure a port in the Adriatic. All men between 18 and 55 years of ago have been pressed into active service. Mobilisation has yielded 450,000 troops. Many raw recruits, who need officers and clothes, arc being formed into bands of irregulars and thrown into Bosnia in order to foment a revolution. The actual Servian Army numbers 250,000 veterans of two campaign?. Concentration is mainly directed to the Serbo-Hungar:.an frontier on the Danube, where presumably the forces will junction with tho Russians. The staff-officers announced that concentration would be completed on August 7, when forward movements would be initiated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15684, 11 August 1914, Page 7
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166SERVIANS EXPECT TO REALISE ASPIRATIONS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15684, 11 August 1914, Page 7
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