A DEISPERATE BATTLE.
TTTRIKS MOWIID DOWN
GROUND STREIWN WITH
OOBPSEIS.
FANKISTKIdKENI POPULAiOEI
CEiTTTNJEi, December 4.
"iA sortie on the left flank early omi Monday morning gradually developed into a pitched battle lasting for 28 hours in spite or torrential rain.
When the Turks left their entrenched ewer the Montenegrins held fire, and then with rifles, artillery, and machine gunis decimated! the ranlks.'
The artillery on. both sides were engaged throughout the night, and in the morningl the ground was strewn with corpses. Shells did great diamlage to the. town,, fire breaking 1 out at sereraJ: points and throwing 1 the populace into panitt The Montenegrins losses were smiall.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 5 December 1912, Page 5
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108A DEISPERATE BATTLE. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 5 December 1912, Page 5
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