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Show CROATIAN TROOPS RUSHED BLINDLY IN VENICE. Sept. 17. l:li p- 113 Paris. 5:10 p. m Reports rn-.upl iiere from trustworthy sources indicate th;.t the situation or the Austrian troops in Galiria is most precarir.ns. During the fighting along the (-nrviaii frontier the Croatian regin:.jnts snficrd enormous lussfr. Owing to their ra--i.il hatred of the Servians '""y were rtwise. i to lead the first atta-k. ami i-:i."l awav by tiieir enthusiasm lii.-v ,lid not wait fo'r the support of their artiib-rv but rushed blindly against the Servians, running instead of crawling aero-,.-; Lie-field. Lie-field. As a consequenc e mev tell in , musses before the Servian tire. Around l.emberg, the ital of lin-lii-ia. tiio Austrian infantry -stained terrible losses beeause the :i rl.i 1 1 . r y was caught in the marshes' The artilb-rv-men stood for several hours in water and the infantrv arrived at tne scene of the fighting'too late to afford the lieeessarv support for the artillery. Fatal Mistake. It. is alxi asserted here thai, the'Auv trian artillery decimated three of their own intantrv regini'-nts v. horn they mistook mis-took for bus.sians because of a siniL-laritv siniL-laritv in the uniform". W'oiinde.l to the number of LTIOO arrived ar-rived in Vienna Tttesdav. Ah evidence of the galhintrv of the An trian soldiers it is de. -hired that all the wounds are on the front, of I he body. Accordingly it. is announced that the government order or-der forbidding persons to give information infor-mation regarding wounded soldiers has been cancelled. The public is now freely free-ly admitted to the, hospitals, indicat.- ing that the authorities do not fear to let the people know what has happened. hap-pened. . . ii An armv order -just issued iortois Austrian troops to fire on aeroidanes for the reason that if 'is impossible to i distinguish between their own and the enemv's aviators. An unexpected ilit-ficulty ilit-ficulty has arisen in eonueclion with the feeding of the soldiers in the field. The smoke from the field kitchens betrays be-trays the location of the troops and :t is probable that the sy-tem of food supply sup-ply will be changed. |