Nelson's history of the war. Vol. XI., The struggle for the Dvina, and the great invasion of Serbia

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pieces of the British Naval Mission were either destroyed or got away in time. His artillery had played havoc with the capital, and the German flag floated over a desolation. But it had been a calculated destruction, for the railway station was left intact.

On the left Mishitch, whe had the best troops of the Serbian army under his command, managed to check any torrential crossing of the Save. At Shabatz, at Prograrska Island, and at Zabrej, he held the enemy for several days. But von Gallwitz by this time had overcome the resistance of the Serbian

right. He crossed at Semendria, at Ram, and near Graditze. Here, on the south bank, at the mouth of the valleys of the Mlava and Morava, for a little there were stubborn encounters. But the Serbians were gradually driven back to Pojarevatz, and on the 11th Berlin announced that ome hundred miles of front from Shabatz Ey Tle to Graditze, on the south bank of the Save and Danube, had been won.

Next day Bulgaria formally entered the war, having waited till she was assured of von Mackensen’s ability to force the line of the rivers, and with that event von Gallwitz’s left wing in the neighbourhood of Orsova came into action. The Serbian position was now a somewhat as follows. Mishitch, on the left, was being forced slowly back from the Save towards the foothills of the Tser range, where a year before the Serbian army had made their first stand against the third Austrian invasion. His communications were bad, and he was in danger of having his flanks turned by the Austrian crossing of the Drina, and