SERBS AND MONTENEGRINS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8811, 14 August 1914, Page 6

SERBS AND MONTENEGRINS

LATTER OCCUPY SCUTARI. FORMER BEFORE THE BOSNIAN CAPITAL. ROME, August 12. ' A telegram has been received asserting that the Montenegrins have occupied Scutari. LONDON, August 12. Paris advices state that the Montenegrins have occupied Mount Tarabosch - ATHENS, August 12. The Servian Legation states that the Servian troops have arrived before Serajevo. INVASION OF BOSNIA GENERAL .TANTCOVICS IN COMMAND. (Received- August 13, 9 p.m.);. NISH, August 13, morning. The united Servian and Montenegrin armies have begun the invasion of Bosnia with three; columns. The Montenegrin General, Jankovios, is in command. General Putnik, Chief of the Servian General Staff, is ill. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Vienna correspondent stated on July 27th that General Putnik. was staying at Gleenchenberg, a watering -place _at Styna, with his daughter. The police entered a train, knocked and made their way into General Putnik’s compartment. Putnik drew a revolver. The detectives allege that he intended to shoot himself. His daughter, meanwhile, was screaming; There was a desperate fight and Putnik fell, a detective holding him and pressing his knee against his chest. Finally he carried Putnik out of 'the train, his daughter still screaming. At the station. General Sorsioh, Commander at Budapest, expressed regret that he was compel-, led to arrest Putnik. Later on the Emperor ordered his -release, ’ AUSTRIAN VESSEL SEIZED AND T 4 KEN TO PLYMOUTH. LONDON, August 12. An Austrian steamer loaded with harlev was captured'and taken to Plymouth. , ’ PRINCE GEORGE OF SERVIy WOUNDED BY FRAGMENT OF SHELL. (Received August 13, 8.50 p.m.) BELGRADE, August 12, noon. Prince George of Servia was watching the Austrian, bombardment from the walls of the fortress, and was; wounded iff the head by, a fragment of: a shell. The Prince is unconscious; hut, ifc is Believed that his condition is not dangerous. GERMAN CRUISERS KNOWN TO BE IN THE ATLANTIC WILL BE HUNTED UNTIL THEY ARE CAUGHT. ADMIRALTY’S CONTROL OF TRADE ROUTES. (Received August 13, ,11.33 p.iA) LONDON, August 13, morning. The Admiralty announce that they have despatched a number of the mobilised cruisers‘to the South American trade routes, nearly trebling the superior cruiser force, already there. Twenty-four British cruisers, .be 1 sides French cruisers, are in the Atlantic seeking, five Gorman cruisers known to ibe in that ocean. They ..will be hunted (continually, and though some time may elapse before they _are caught, they will he kept too Busy to do any mischief. The Admiralty’s control of the trade routes, especially the; Atlantic, is becoming stronger daily, and traders should confidently and boldly send their ships to sea. except in the North ■ Sea, where the Germans have scattered mines indiscrimnately. BRITAIN AND AUSTRIA WAR HAS BROKEN OUT. In the House of Representatives last evening the Prime Minister read a cablegram announcing: “War has broken out with Austria-Hungary.” _“Tlie news' is ' not altogether unexpected,” INfr Massey observed: “It simply means that Britain is now at war with Austria.” ,