200 BOMB-THROWERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13070, 9 May 1913, Page 9

200 BOMB-THROWERS.

" HOW TARABOSCH WAS , -CAPTURED.

„ CETTINJE, April 3. The ' grfeaf'Tafcabosch fort, which foi* -j-riphths- has- held the allies off from Scutari, „'! bow •-■practically iri the hands of the MontenegrinsJ»thahks to the sacrifice of' 2oo boihb-throwers, every one of whom lost his life in a last desperate effort to clear the -way to the town, for the pdsscssoin of which Montenegro is ready to give "everything. These Jbomb-throwers were all picked me , ri^<H&eft^. tr om ..several battalions. ,, Clamb^ing up /the -fountain sicle under ,-a niurderqus, ftfe7fr9m the Turkish guns, they , qut the . .wire, entanglements, and getting to close, quarters threw bombs among the Turks, thus opening the way; for *^"a>;!^njfujng,:party. I , No^pne of,£he. bpmb-throwers return- 1 . .fed.' bUJ. "Cftey, k*W accp^qjalished their ob--1 ject, ' aftdL t*3^ Montenegrin infantry, following . ,'*6ge' .upon them,', charged tho ,irenciK& '„'.',' , '"iy l . ,Tlle Turjcs, held, their ground, and a .desperate, af^jj ..bloody hand-to-hand fight ensued, lasting an hour and ending in victory for. the . Montenegrins, who lost 300 I< m6n killed. and wounded. „ ,: Tier ( aftei* l t ti-e):, of , entrenchments had /tp D^ltakjen, but'the irobps of the South"'eim'djyi.fion 'under General, Martinovitcty to* 'Ihe;! tasl?.' had 'lieen assigned, ov'e*rcame 7 f a<H, pbstactes. > . . The* tafetl'cs. followed, particularly in -regard ' io- "the -a'sfe'! "oi bomb-throwers, were '.similar td" those" adopted n the capture of Adfiaaople.' t ßut in theadvarfcei'6n Adtfanople th&. soldiers who ' cut*.": and j divided' the: v?il*e "eritdnglements surrounding the forts were clad in cuirasEjes aod..!prpyMea with shields^ / At', Tiifaposcn '* the' rojigh mountainside'' made! 'if neceskhry'i fpr tlie Mon.tenegrins w> ;, dispense with' all impediments. , ' ;U ' v y/<i'-: r '' , '