New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
AMERICAN RED CROSS
 coD-SEND TO SERBIA
PTobtm of Caring for Refugees
 Proves Difficult One.

Nish. Serbia, Feb. 15.-Nish, nor mally a town of some twenty thou sand, has been transformed by the war into a city of more than one hun dred thousand souls. The stranger within the city gates wonders where all the people seen on the streets sleep at night. The small public park, as well as the two principal shopping streets, are as crowded during the daylight hours as Broadway and Fifth avenue on late afternoon. The problem of caring for the thousands who fled from Belgrade and the north ern communities of the country when war was declared has been a difficult one.
 Every, house with vacant rooms was commandeered by the government, but even this action failed to provide shelter for hundreds of fugitives from the battle districts. In the dilemma in which the Serbian people found themselves the American Red Cross mission came as a veritable God-send. Everywhere the Associated Press cor respondent has travelled he has en- countered evidences of good : work done by American citizens and has everywhere found grateful apprecfa- tlOl on the part or lle SeIbldIl ,pto- ple This appreciation was officially expressed by M. Miosh Petronievitch, one of the administrators of the dip lomatic press bureau, who speaks English perfectly.
 Modelled After United States.
 "Our constitution said M. Petronie- witch, "and all of our institutions are really modelled from those of the United 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, as well as the sympathy and aid for our wounded sent us by the American Red Cross during all three of our re- cent wars. accounts for the very warm welcome We shall always give to any American who cares to come out and study us at closer range.
 We are not so hospitable to all foreigners. Serbia is more accus- toned to having enemies than friends. From the time the Serbian empire came under the Turks in the four teenth century, until it's liberation in the early part of the nineteenth cen- tury, Serbia was cut off as state from all the rest of the world Her Turkish tyrants had but one idea, to destroy the soul of the race, the memory of it's glorious and martial past, of it's aristocratic traditions and of it's racial unity with the other Slav peoples It's chivalry perished in the great battle of Kossoya in 1889. Kossova is a vast plain about 1 % miles southwest of Nish, where the battle of Turkish conquest between the forces of the Sultan Murad I. and the Serbian Emperor Lazar was fought in the fourteenth century. This great battle ended with the complete over- throw of the Serbian empire and the five hundred year domination of the whole of southwest Europe by the Turks. This domination included all the peoples now comprising the Bal kan states. All the sons of the noble Serbian families were carried off to Constantinople to form the famous guard of tho Janssaries. They were reared i'll complete ignorance of their 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 emigra- tions have sprung the members of the race who are today outside the king dom of Serbia. Bosnia, Herzegovina and Delmatia are integrally a part of the kingdom, though detached from it by European politics at the congress of Berlin
 Shows Ancient Confines.
 MT. Petronievitch pointed to a large map hung in his office, showing