By the next day the whole river bank was
cleared of them. Serbian soldiers lined the whole length of the
frontier in this section. There remained now only the Austrians
in Shabatz to deal with. The whole Serbian army was now able to
concentrate on this remaining force of the enemy left in Serbian
territory.
Early on August 21, 1914, the attack began, and the Austrians here
fought stoutly. Indeed, all that day they held the Serbians off
from behind their intrenchments. On August 22, 1914, the Serbians
made a general assault. Fortunately they found a weakness in the
fortifications on the western side of the town. To create a diversion,
the Austrians delivered a counterattack along the road toward Varna.
By the morning of August 24, 1914, the Serbians had brought up a
number of heavy siege guns. But when the general bombardment had
already commenced, it was found that the Austrians had evacuated
the town during the night, and retreated across the river. And
so the first Austrian invasion of Serbia came to its disastrous
end.
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