Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-31
Serbs Occupied Their Capt.
tai With Little
Loss.
WAS A HOME-C COMING
Austrians, Taken BY Sur
prise, Were Complete
ly Routed.

VAIJEVO, Serbia, Jan. 5.-The
Serbian reoccupation of Naljevo,
which marked the end of the third
Austrian invasion of Serbia, was ac-
complished without extensive fighting
in the immediate vicinity of the city.
The Austrians, it is true, had pre-
pared elaborately for the defense OF
Valjevo, and their artillery COM
manded all the usual approaches
But the Serbians presented only a
small decoy squad at the main ROADS,
sending their principal forces around
the hills by footpath and secret
routes to the rear and 1lank OF the
Austrian positions.
They took the Austrians completely
nv surprise, after scattering rear
guard of Hungarans quietly by the
bavonet. The towns defenders, at
tackled from both front and rear,
abandoned trenches and fled Retreat
changed to rout when the Serbians
turned on them their own cannon
from the heights, shelling the Aus
trian rear guard in its flight ana
killing hundred of them at one
spot as they rounded the top OF
hill lust outside the town.
Entrance Not Imposing.
Tho entry of the Serbian army was
nor imposing. The men were too
much in earnest for much display or
hiarIty. Some of the old population
got out faded flags and hung them
aIoft I'm welcome. and there was
committee of old men representing
the municipality to receive the gem
eral and welcome the returning SOL
diers. but in the main the entry re-
sembled the return to bereaVeu
bouse after a funeral. The dead lay
everywhere, Serbian as well as Aus
+rian and as for the wounded, II
was many DAYS before they had all
been gathered up from the flelds ana
hills OF the countryside ana placeu
under surgeons care.
Along the road there was plenty TO
indicate, the collapse of the invaders
mans Countless cans of food ana
nieces of discarded or broken equip
mont Law in the wheel tracks, ana
here and there could be seen the
CLEAN Of q uniform, almost com
pletelv hidden by the mud. AT the en-
trance to the town was a great heap
of broken artillery, ammuhllloIi,
provisions, baggage, cartridge case'
and personal effects, which the aus
trians' plan to burn had been ioiieu
by the pressure OF the ohcoi'i''e
enemy
Used Austrian Guns.
The Serbians advanced too hastiiS
TO bring up much of their own ar'ii-
lerv. but they had no dlItlcuity III
hot q
manning the Austrian pa'tel'e9
which they had captureu' BIus'
horses and ammunition wagons nv nt
use of these Austrian guns asaiha'
their late owners added the las' IN
centive to the hasty departure OF the
tni'aders for the Austrian infantry
easily recognized the shots fired To-
ward them from their own guns, not
only by the position of the batteries
hut also from the characteristic req
dish purple smoke of the Austrian
Tn some of the trenches the SERBS
gathered UP the shovels left behind
bv the Austrlans and began at once
completlng the defense works lot 1t
was generally believed that the AUS
trIans would soon reform and return
I'm an effort at counter attack Inc
Serbs expressed great contempt LOT
tbe novice Notifications erected by
tbe Austrian recruits for the Serbs
have been building trenches all
through three wars, until the science
of This mode of defense Is as familiar
to them as target practice.
Left Many Mules.
The horses and ponies which the
Austrians left stabbed in Val1evo in7
cluded large numbers of Tyrolean
rules never before seen in these
narts but excellent, sturdy animals
and invaluable for artillery purposes
In. all parts of the town were to be
seen coaches and cabs, brought from
Trieste and other cities to do mill
tary duty. and now abandoned, their
shafts pointing desolately skyward.
close behind the Serbian soldiers
came groups of refugees hurrylng
hack to their homes, which they had
left when they fled before the Aus
trian advance Their oxen were
voked up to every conceivable species
of wagon, and their wagons were
piled high with heavy conceivable
species of household article
There was a great smashing OF
dishes when the Serbian women got
back into their homes, for these peo-
ple are almost superstluous as 10
The cleanliness of their crockery and
kitchenware. and it seemed to be the
general impression among the house
wives that nothing which had been
used by the Austrian invaders was
suitable for use again In preparing
Serbian meals.
Within a day or two the town was
almost swamped with prisoners, Tor
~ carbian trooDs had spread fan
lilo ali over the countryside, and
we're sweeping in Austrian stragglers
from everywhere.
No Danger.
r,-, 49,. 4hat tho cloqa of the