ustrian invasion of Serbia. Of the army of 300,000
men who had crossed the Drina and Save rivers, not over 200,000
returned. During the last thirteen days of the operations the Serbians
had captured 41,538 prisoners, including 323 officers, and enormous
quantities of war material; 133 cannon, 71 machine guns, 29 gun
carriages, 386 ammunition wagons, 45 portable ovens, 3,350 transport
wagons, 2,243 horses, and 1,078 oxen. The Austrian killed and wounded
numbered not far from 60,000.

The Austrian occupation of Belgrade had lasted just fourteen days. The
invaders had evidently not counted on the disaster that was so soon to
come to them. Under the guidance of their late military attache in
Serbia they had established themselves in the best available buildings,
began to repair the streets, which they themselves had ripped open by
shell fire, and set up the semblance of a city administration. But it
was still evident that no central authority from above had as yet been
able to assert itself. The personality of each commander, was
represented by the marks left behind in his district. The buildings
occupied by one military authority remained cleanly and intact, even the
king's photograph being left undamaged. In others, furniture was
destroyed and the royal image shot and slashed to pieces. Entire
sections of the town escaped pillage. Other quarters were plundered from
end to end. While the cathedral and other churches were not seriously
damaged, the General Post Office was completely wrecked. The furniture
in the Sobranje, the house of the national assembly, was destroyed and
broken, and the Royal Palace was stripped from floor to ceiling, the
contents being carted off to Hungary in furniture vans, brought
especially from Semlin for that purpose.

With the army of occupation came 800 wounded soldiers from the other
theatres of operations. Most of them were immediately turned over to the
American Red Cross unit established in Belgrade, already caring for
1,200 wounded Serbians. As the fighting continued in the interior these
numbers were constantly augmented, until the American hospital
sheltered nearly 3,000 wounded men.

When the evacuation began the Austrians left their own wounded, but took
with them the Serbian patients, to swell the number of their prisoners
of war. Several hundred of the non-combatant citizens were also taken
into captivity.

In the importance of its influence on the war as a whole, the
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