ampaign should be fought. At Obrenovatz was
stationed a strong brigade, known as the "Detachment of Obrenovatz."
Further south, at Konatiche, on the Kolubara River, the cavalry division
cooperated with the Second Army, which held the line from Volujak to
Cooka and the ridges farther to the left. The Third Army occupied the
right bank of the Lyg River from Barzilovitza to Ivanovchi. The First
Army stretched itself out from Gukoshi to Ruda and along the Jeljak
ridges to Maljen. And finally the "Army of Uzitsha," which had fought so
brilliantly before in the southern section and penetrated into Bosnia,
was assigned the protection of the base at Uzitsha and the Western
Morava; it intrenched itself from a point southwest of Yasenovatz,
through Prishedo, along the Jelova crests, after which it crossed over
to the heights of the Leska Gora to Shanatz.

This new line, much shorter than that previously held, enabled the
Serbians to contract. Moreover, all the country was favorable to
defense. Nowhere was it so screened that an approaching enemy could
surprise them. Here, certainly, one defender was equal to two invaders.

Apparently the Austrian commanders realized that they had genuine
obstacles to overcome, for they did not proceed with any impetuous
haste. It was six weeks before they had advanced so far as to come into
real contact with the new Serbian line. During that interval they had
been preparing for this kind of mountain warfare, by bringing up special
mountain artillery and men who had had experience in just such a country
on the Italian front.

It was mid-November, 1914, before the Austrians were ready to deliver
their first assaults. Almost every garrison in the town of Bosnia had
been drawn on to swell their numbers and the troops brought up from the
Italian front amounted to a whole army corps. All in all, there were
about 250 battalions of infantry, in addition to cavalry, artillery and
engineer corps.

One feature of this third invasion, which had not attended the first and
second, was the vast number of refugees who now came fleeing through the
Serbian lines. Their ox carts and their flocks blocked the roads, old
men and women and children thronged the trails in their mad haste to get
away from the advancing Austrians. Their reports of the vast numbers of
the enemy that they had seen may not have helped to encourage the
Serbian soldiers, but, on the other hand, they gave reports, somewhat
exaggerated, perh