The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-17

MAJ. eeraia.-SeebiA ct this time
n the most melancholy figure "a tne
var and the most heroic A one
counoa M from ealoniki. the one pors
through which outside aid for ssrpaa
can enter. rumors rife In Athens are
verified at Ghevghen. the nrst frontet
town. The most violent epidemic OF
typhus In history II taking IT. toll
OF : country that already has suneieo
too much. Exactly one-hak the stan
Of the American hospital at Ghevghen
was found to be suffering from the re-
yer. And no wonder. A mission OF
four doctors and eight nurses under
DIR. e. r. Butler found on its arrival
moro than Q thousand wounded IN the
old tobacco factory ct that place. ana
the number has since increased 70
$500, with no running water. and any
water at all I'VE blocks away. II 10
impossible to convey either to Ameri-
cans or to those familiar with Red
Cross work on the western 'front.' any
idea OF what besieges Serbia.
"Oh, yes" said one CHEEKY little
American nurse from Kansas City,
I'VE are used to having our wounded
arrive and to find maggots when we
open the temporary dressings. We
are used to horror after horror. But
with surgery we can do something.
With typhus 1t Is different. 1t is
lice given disease and there are al
ways lice where there IL crowding and
the primitive notions of sanitation
that prevail in Serbia. In crowded
hospital like this there is no human
way Of fighting it. no way to segre
gate"
, In the hospital the men lay close
! together on the bare floor or on straw
stuffed mattresses. AS any doctor
knows, straw mattresses are ElysiaI
fields for insects.
At Uskub, where two of Lady Pa
gets mission have died of typhus. al
fairs were found to be no better
; There reports of conditions farthe
4 north began to come through. In Va
a jevo alone there are nearly 1000 case
!, OF typhus. More than forty Serbian
doctors have succumbed in the las
e two months and nobody has yet CON
I puted the number Of patients VIII
, have died.
|. In Nish, at the second reserv
camp for Austrian prisoners, men hav
been dying like flies. and the last {
the Austrian doctors was stricke
three days ago. Needless to say.
q country overwhelmed with it's ow
problem it's prisoners fare no bette
than the rest
a Only the Austrian officers seem
e enjoy any comfort. That they are NJ
n altogether miserable is evidenced
I. the fact that on the day Sir Thoms
s. Upton and group Of friends wei
e out to visit the informed officers on
|. a few of them were up, although
was three o'clock in the afternoo
The Serbian colonel in command
the quarters where 635 officers are pr
"a oners explained indulgently that Il
=. previous night had been what "
English call an evening of it."
three of the officers were from L
= opera company at Budapest and 70
we're from the Bohemian opera CO.
a, pany at Prague, there had been a &C
cert, and the three francs daily allo
ance given the prisoners had be
9: made to yield wine enough to accou
~ for the next days late hours. WI
100 the common soldiers it Is different.
az Nish itself, as even the most pat
SO otto Serb will tell you, is q wretchet
IA dirty town. In normal times it's pol
:05 lation Is 10000. Now 1t has me
:aS than 100000. Refugees sleep in I
:oa streets. A bed in the worst hotel
rs town is likely to be yours only as
:oo spoils Of war after you have called
"a the ministry of foreign affairs and
:s5 press before the hotel keeper an alb
al lutte Indifference as to price WI
,:ss you get for your trouble is often
l:55 room on the courtyard, and likely
az not the court is used by the cook, "
,:20 buys his lambs bleating and bril-
Ivy | them alive from the market in