The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-26
Women Children and Old Men
Are Gathered on Plain Of Kos
soyo, Suffering From Famine
and Are Doomed To Perish
SUFFERING IS CHASTITY
4 AND RELIEF HOPELESS
But In Midst Of This Condition
Remnant Of King Peters Army
Is Fighting Austro- Germans
Ferociously Bulgarian Routed
tA'sociatsd Press BY Federal wireless,

stAsSociated Press by Federal wirslsss)
+ oNDoN, November 24,--Gathered
on, the high plain of Kossovo,
wi. hout. hope of rescue, suffering
from famine and exposure, are half
the sople Of Old Serbia, men, women
and children, who have fled before the
three invading armies to escape the
fate that befell those who were en-
eountered by the Austrians ON their
former invasion and those who became
the victims of massacre and pillage
when the Austrians reerOssed the Drina
and the Save in the present invasion
The sunerings of these people, &c
cording to the dispatches from Salon
ikn, are CHASTITY, while lack Of trans.
Portation facilities is preventing their
escape either into Albania or Monte.
negro. Tho pinch of famine came two
weeks ago and today ii is acute, with
the old and the very young amongst
the Refugees dying by the hundreds
Swept BY wIntry Winds
: The elevated plain is swept by the
wintry winds and there is no shelter
for half the number of people who soon
must have 1t or perish. There is no
fodder for the stock which has been
driven with them by the refugees, and
the horses, and oxen upon which many
depended for their transportation are
dying rapidly from staFvation.
In the midst of their suffering, the
Serbians are still determined to fight
to the last and the starving women and
the suffering old men are working to
the last ounce of their strength with
the soldiers to strengthen the defensive
lines behind which Serbia win make
its final struggle against the invaders
This Is, situation Of Northern Ser
bia, with. the Serbian army falling back
towards the Kossoyo plateau, disputing.
the Apstro German advance foot by
foot. The Austro-G Germans, in the Of,
6rial dispatches sent out from Berlin
and Vienna, claim to be making pro-
gress and to have captured several
thousand Serbians in the past two
days, with a number of guns.
serbians Being Forced Back
The official Vienesse report states
that the army of General Gallwitz,
operating along the railroad northwest
from Uskub, has pushed the Serbians
to within thirteen miles of Prishtina,
in tho fighting on Sunday. and Monday
taking twelve thousand prisoners.
The Berlin dispatches acknowledge
that onl y slow progress is being made,
attributiHg this to the fact that
change in the general disposition of the
forces Is being made in Serbia, in or
der to give the German troops the hon
or OF being first to enter Monastir
when that war capital falls
The reports from Athens advance
quite n different explanation for the de-
1ided slackenin. up Of the Teuton of
fensive, stating that ii is due to the
fact that the Bulgarians have been
badl, defeated In both South Serbia
and in the Nish district, defeated 50
deeisively that the bulk of the fighting
in Serbia in the future will fall upOr
the forces of the Central Powers.
Bulgaria Fails As Ally
Bulgaria as an ally has proven to be
a failure and TIE force of 100000 men
which the Bulgsrs agreed with Ger.
many to send into Serbia has already
heen reduced in the fighting to less
tina" half that number 1t is doubted
in Athens whether Bulgaria has the
men to replace those who have fallen or
cen captured by the Serbs and the
Allies, while. the force left is not suf-
feient to preserve Bulgaria's own bord-
erE. * 1911
Yesterday following the defeat Of the
Bhlgariaps at Lcskovat and northeast
Of PrishHua by the SerBians, the Serbs
advanced and threatening the Nish.
Sofa railroad between Nish and Prot,
while the defeat of the Bulgarians at
Monastir by tie British and Serbs has
forced withdrawal Of that wing Of
the Bulgariahs and the Serbians have
reoceipied the Velen-Prilip line.
Yesterday an Italian force began its
landing on the Albanian coast.