Evening star., 1915-12-22

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that the Austrian had to compete with
a Russian agent who also made oners
The Austrian lost out, despite the fact
that Kladowa already had a SERB
burgomaster and civilian admlnlstra-
tion.
Fort Abandoned by Serbs.
There has been little fighting in the
kladowa region. The fort or citadel,
an ancient Turkish structure, recently
reinforced by some modern redoubts,
was abandoned by the Serbs. Cattle
ana sheep grazed on the glacis and in
the moats. Anciently. the fort COM
.landea the western limits and Kazan
pass. Ihen it would have been a mill
10y 10y acnieVement of the first order to
ne Niadowa; today few shells from
puI fractured masonry.
ne enamel of the Iron Gates was a
EEtilirace Enl! or turbulent mud. Though the
oasa pulled hard against the treacher-
ts utes current. ~ she needed eighteen min
US 70 get INTO quieter water. A turn
oaousht the ship within sight of Or
SoWa So,o and Ada Kale, the latter, up to
IL, 80, the last outpost of Turkey in
~ ope. rearing that Serbia might
annex the island the Austro- Hunea-
ran government took possession nomi
naly, though leaving to the Turkish
popuiatlon every right and prerogative
;ioma Ia" EVER enjoyed, including the priv
iiese or carrying on smuggling in to-
pacco with whomsoever ii pleased
many Drowned in Assault.
At Orsowa some of the central mower
troops crossed the river. The town it.
self showed signs of the recent and
former artillery fire of the Serbs from
the opposite bank. How the Austrians
d. nu ~, Germans succeeded in scaling the
liaiIhe elevations on the Serbian
shore is hard to understand. Dis
lodging an enemy intrenched on ton Of
the Hudson palisades looks less diff
cut. but many a man tumbled and
more We're drowned before they set
1901 on Serbian soil. Nevertheless the
th a..ack was successfully carried
through, and will probably remain
one of the monuments of the great
war.
orsowa lies on historic ground Here
lne IRON Gates end and the kazan
pass begins. The river suueezes itself
through narrow defile of the Kazan
mountains geological fault ap-
parently. Through the borde the
Romans had to build road that would
connect the Pannonian colonies. Ira
JAMS tablet, still tegibIe, celebrates
this ancient piece of military engi-
neering. Close to the waters edge a
gallery was cut in the lime rock. and
where the masses of stone could not
be conquered in this way trestle, sup
ported on beams. was constructed. The
manner in which the structure was
made possible is interesting, for the
reason that it has been revived by
American engineers who built a rail-
road through the Andes Square holes
of a depth of about four feet were
cut into the face of the cliff. Into these
stout beams were placed, and on these
a strong wooden floor was laid
Crossed East of Kazan Pass.
No attempts to cross the Danube were
made by the Austrians and the Ger
mans in the kazan pass. but east of
it, at the head of Moldava Island and
opposite the Serbian town of Dubro-
vica, the main descent occurred. The
exact scene is marked by a pontoon
bridge, which must be looked upon as
a marvel of enterprise. The bridge
is about 1900 yards long and rests
upon about thirty large barges. 1t
was built by Austro-Hungarian pio-
neers while under fire, and is as
serted to have no equal in the history
of military engineering. Field Marshal
Won Mackensen, when he inspected the
stretch of river which his troops would
have to cross at this point, is said
to have shaken his head The re-
mark he made was simply:
well, the river looks different than it
does on the map
The crossing of the Danube at this
point was no mean undertaking, ac-
cording to those who witnessed the