AN AWFUL PICTURE.
RETREATING TURKS MOWED
DOWN
TERRIBLE HAIL OF SHRAPNEL
RAMPARTS OF CORPSES. BELGRADE, Oct. 30
During the pursuit of the Turks from Kuma:iovo towards Uskub, the Servians' deadly battery fire mowed down •whole ■companies. The Turks threw away their rifles .and knapsacks, climbed the hillsides, 'and tried to hide in depressions in the ground, or behind trees. Everywhere the merciless shrapnel burst over their heads, strewing the hills and roads with corpses. Where it was possible to make a momentary stand, the Turks, in search of cover^ piled heaps of dead bodies, using the corpses of friends and foes alike. The Servians jumped upon these human ramparts, and'a hand to hand fight ensued. The Servians, by means of parafiin, burned the corpses on the battlefield, there being no time to bury them.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 31 October 1912, Page 5
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