1937-09-11 — Page 5

CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 11, 1937.

DRAMA OF WAR HEROES WHO DIED ON SAME DAY

Coincidence has played a strange part in the final drams of two men who became heroes in the World War.

At midnight, a pontoon was LOW- ed by half a dozen excited men of the 7th Battalion of Austro- Hungarian Pioneers towards their fenemies. When near their destina One fired the first shot, the other tion Milojkovio became was the first to be wounded in that four years' struggle, and death came to both on the same day.

The men were Milan Milojkovio, a barbar of Belgrade, and Francis Balla, a cabinet maker of Szeged, Hungary. Both men, on opposing sides, fought in the first battle of the war.

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First Man Wounded

The Austro-Hungarian pontoon was near to the Serbian shore when Zemun commanders realised it was useless to continue attack- Milojkovio was vice-sergeant of ing. The bullets came too rapidly. the Serbian Infantry Regiment No: the whole Belgrade garrison was 1, and Balla was a private in the on foot A bugle call from the Austro-Hungarian Infantry Regi-Zemun shore beckoned to the pon- ment No. 68.

Across The River,

During the night of July 28-29. Belgrade was in total darkness. Vice-Sergeant Milan Milojkovio. with a dozen men of the First Infantry Regiment, patrolled the right shore of the River Save, spy- ing on Zemun. They saw nothing. for the town opposite was protect- ed by a thick fog.

1328 TREATY NOW

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The terms of a treaty made with Robert Bruce. King of Scotland, are now being fulfilled.

toon to return. As they turned Francis Balla, who was in the pon toon, fell in pain. He was the first man to be wounded in the war

From that moment he became a hero. Taken to the nearest Hungarian field hospital, he was onerated on by a skilled Budapeet University surgeon. When the operation was performed he was rnished to Budapest for safety.

Balla was regarded as such z hero, in fact, that he was not re quired to retum to the mattisfielda. Tastead he went to his home town of Szeged, where he reopened his workshop.

Vice Sergeant Milan MilojkoviO. whose valour had brought Belgrade its victory against this first attack was greeted by King Peter of Serbia, and he, too, became a hero

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