The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-15
Red Cross Cares for Thousands
of Refugees i'm the City I!


city gates wonders where ali the peo
pie seen ON the streets sleep at night
The small public park, as well al
the two principal shopping streets
are as crowded during the daylight
hours, as Broadway, and Fifth avenue
on q late afternoon: The problem 81
caring for the thousands who fed here
from Belgrade and the north ern com
munities of the country when war was
declared has been a difficult one.
Every house with vacant rooms was
Communicated by the government but
even this action failed to provide shell
ter for hundreds Of fngitives from the
battle districts. In the dilemma in
which the Serbian people found them
selves the American Red Cross cor.
respondent has travelled he has en-
countered evidences OF. good work
done by American citizens and has
everywhere found grateful apprecia-
ton on the part OF the Serbian people.
This appreciation was ofticially ex.
pressed by NJ. Aiilosh Petronievitch
one Of the administrato tors of the dtplo-
matte press bureau, who speaks Eng
lish perfectly. IL b (
Our constitution said NJ. Petron-
ievftch. "and all our institutions are
really modelled from those of the Uni.
ted States Of America, and some day
we hope to be really an American
state here at the end Of Europe and
the beginning OF Asia. That, al we'll
as the sympathy and aid for our
wounded sent US by the: American Red
Cross during all three Of our recent
wars, accounts for the very warm well
come we shall always Y give to any
American who cares to come out and
study us at closer range.
"We are not so hospitable to all for
etgners. Serbia Is more accustomed
to having enemies than friends. From
the time the Serbian empire came UNI
der the Turks in the fourteenth CEN
fury, until dts liberation in the early
part OF the nineteenth century, Serbia
was cut of as a state from all the
rest OF the world. Her, Turkish. ty-
rants had but one idea, to destroy the
soul OF the race, the memory OF Its
glorious and martial past, OF It's aris-
tocratic traditions and OF its racial
unity with the other Slav: peolpes. It's
chiyalry persisted. In the great battle
os Kossova in 1889. Kosova is a vast
plain bout 100 miles southwest Of
Nish. where the battle of Turkish con-
quest between the forces Of the Sultan
Murad j. and the Serbian Emperor
Lazar was gought in the fourteenth
century. This great battle ended With
the complete overthrow Of the Ser
ban empire and the five hundred year
domination Of the whole OF southwest
Europe by the Turks. This domination
included all the peoples now compffs-
ing the Balkan states. All the sons OF
the noble Serbian families were car
ried on to Constant inople to form the
famous guard Of the Jauissaries. They
were reared in complete ignorance OF
their parentage, and with but one
ideal, the sultan. A certain number
of the great Serbian families escaped
into Russia. Austria and Montenegro.
From these and subsequent emigra2
lions have sprung the members OF the
race who are today outside the king
dom Of Serbia. Bosnia, Herzegovina
and Dalmatia are integrally q part OF
the kingdom, though detached from It
by European politics at the congress
Of Berlin"
Mr.. Petronievitch pointed to a large
map which hung in his Office, showing
the ancient confines OF the Serbian
empire as well as the marginal line
of the frontiers of that Greater Ser
bia, the creation Of which is in some
quarters regarded as the cause OF the
war. Be this as 1t may, It will Gers
tainly be one Of the most important
changes in the map OF Europe if Ser
bia and her powerful allies are sue.
cessful against the Germans and the
Austrians.
You can see," continued Mr.. Pet.
ronievitch, chow difficult has been
the position OF Serbia, with the Turks
on the one hand longing to conquer
what they had: lost; the Austrians on
the other;hand, urged by the Germans,
whose own expansion could only take
place by pushing the Austrians into
possession of all the Slav kingd oms
OF the Balkans, thus leaving free the
German provinces Of Austria for Ger
many. There is no doubt to our mind
that Germany has had the idea OF abb
sorbing the dual monarchy OF Austria
Hungary, thus dreaming OF q kingdom
extending from the shores OF the North
sea to the AEGEAN at Salonika, the Bos-
phorus and the Sea of Aihmora az
Constantinople, and reaching out to. q
supreme control OF the Mediterranean
and even the Black sea. Mo- one who
has not lived on the shores OF this
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