ACTIVE WARFARE BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND MONTENEGRO.
INITIAL SUCCESSES GAINED BY SLAVONIC FORCES,
ATTACK ON SOUTHERN FRONTIER POSTS REPULSED.
BOMBARDMENT OF ANTIVARI BY AUSTRIAN CRUISERS.
(■Received August 11, 8.5 p.m.)
Nish, August 10.
The Montenegrins are attacking the Austrian forces along two fronts. The north-eastern force has captured Motalka Pass and Sicnitsa with the surrounding heights. The western force lias occupied Budua, a town in Dalmatia, near Cattaro. A telegram from Vienna slates (hat on Saturday 1000 Montenegrins attacked the frontier posts east of Trebinjc. This force was repulsed, 200 men being killed. The Austrians lost 22 men. A telegram from Cettinge reports that Austrian cruisers have destroyed the wireless station, electrical mechanical works, naval station, storehouses and a number of houses at Antivari, Montenegro. The cruisers then sailed towards Cattaro.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15685, 12 August 1914, Page 7
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130ACTIVE WARFARE BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND MONTENEGRO. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15685, 12 August 1914, Page 7
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