Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-12-18
AFTER FIERCE FIGHTING LITTLE
CLAW ARMY REOCCUPiES
CAPITAL CITY, SAYS
NiSH DISPATCH.
DUAL MONARCHY TROOPS
DRIVEN ACROSS DRINA
Extended Retirement and Heavy Losses
Are Announced in Official Statement
by Austrian War Offce-Ger-
mans Say Hungary Unable
to Repuise Russians.

or a fierce battle have re-occupied
Belgrade, according to Nish dispatch
to the Reuter- Telegram company.
The Austrians occupied Belgrade De-
cember 2, having besieged it since
July 80, bombarding from batteries
near Zemlin and from monitors on the
Danube. A large portion of the city
was said to have been destroyed by
the fire of the Austrians.
London, Dec. 1.-THE most striking
feature Of the official news is the ad-
mission by the Austrian government
of the defeat of the Austrian army in
SerYia and apparently of the abandon
ment Of its third attempt to invade the
territory of it's small Slav neighbor.
While attributing the failure to the
enemy's superior force, as all govern
mont bulletins explain failures, the
Austrian war office announces plainly
an extended retirement and heavy
losses.
TO Take New Measures.
New decisions and measures con-
sequently will be taken to repel the
enemy says the Austrian statement.
Apparently that means the Austrian
army directed against Servia will as
sumo defensive line.
Against its repulse, Austria balances
the occupation of Belgrade as an asset
to the good.
The Servians claim to be pressing
home their victory with more captures
Of prisoners and to have driven part
OF the invading army across the Drina
river. Moreover. they express con-
tidence that they are about to retake
the capital and expel the invaders
from Seryian territory.
Hungarians Resist Russian Advance.
The progress of the war in noEthern
Hungary is less definite. Sundays
German wireless report, with candor
equal to that Of the Austrian bulletin,
spoke of the severe resistance which
the German and Austrian arms are en-
countering in south Poland and in Ca
1icia, adding that it was evident that
Austrian forces in the Carpathians are
not numerically strong enough to clear
the Russians out Of Hungarian terri
tory.
But the Austrians claim that they
are driving down the northern slopes
of the Carpathians the Russian invad-
ers who were last week in occupation
of several towns south of that noun
tain range.
Much Suffering in Poland.
Poland is fast becoming another Bel
GUM in point of suffering, while the
opposing armies drive each other back
and forth, occupy and reoccupy cities
and villages, and inflict upon the in
habitants commandments similar to
those suffered in Belgium and north.
ern France.
More than 500 Polish towns have
been ruined, according to various ac-
counts from the correspondents Each
army accuses the other of looting and
cruelty. The fight of the civilians
from LODI was one of the most tragic
episodes of the war, while one CORE
spondent pictures the fate of Kalisz as
a repetition OF Louvaine, with the
slaughter of 400 civilians and the sack
ing Of the city.
French Are Successful.
Reports received from the front and
made public in the official statements
issued from the war Office during the
day, told of a notable success of the
French arms over the kaser's forces
in the forest of LaPretre. The battle
has been raging in that section of
the French steadily advancing in spite
of the determined resistance of the
Germans.
The French threw the full force of
their columns against the Germans,
driving them to the north, and COM
polling them to eyacuate positions of
great strategical values.
The aggressive campaign of the
French on the forest Of LaPretre
forms vital portion of the general
one the isolation of the German army
corps at st. Mihiel and the other the
gain Of vantage points for the CON
tinuati0n Of the march toward Metz.
The Vosges region, particularly in
the vicinity of Senones, where the
French have established themselves
in great force, was again the scene OF
attacks, first by one side, then the 9th
er. The sum Of this fighting has been
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