he is sending to his friends at home. It is this wholesome spirit, in
small matters and in great, which makes for success.--[_Photo. by
Newspaper Illus._]




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42--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]


[Illustration: SERBIA'S GREAT TRIUMPH: AUSTRIAN PRISONERS; HONOURING THE
DEAD: AND SERBIAN WOMEN HELPING WITH THE GUNS.]

It has fallen to the Serbians to furnish the most complete and
overwhelming triumph yet achieved in the war--the smashing victory over
the Austrian Army on the River Drina during the first ten days of
December. Our photographs were taken on and near the battlefield.
No. 1 on the first page represents a preliminary incident. It shows
an Austrian patrol captured while pressing forward with the rash
assurance that characterised the Austrian headlong advance. No. 2 is a
battlefield scene, on December 3, when the Serbians suddenly attacked
the Austrians and broke up their positions at all points at the
outset, making whole regiments, scattered and isolated among ravines
and valleys, in many instances, surrender at discretion. One corps
of disarmed Austrian prisoners is seen while being marched to the

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