The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-25
DANUBE TERROR"
GUARDS BELGRADE
Solitary Little Picket Boat
Keeps Austrian Craft i'm
River at Bay.
POPS UP IN THE NIGHT
Special Correspondence to The suS.

LONDON, July 9.-The Times publishes
n despatch from it's correspondent In Bel
grade describing conditions In the much
battered Serbian capital. where British
and French troops are aiding in the de-
fence. The despatch in part follows:
The present situation In Belgrade Is
almost more than Gilbertian. After
lunch. when you are idle. you go out into
the street and look at the enemy and
yawn and wonder when he is going to
begin. You can ascend to the ROOT OF a
favorably situated house. or walk to the
higher ground outside the town. and ,oo<
through glasses up the Danube to where.
beyond the Austrian town of Semlin and
the island OF Grosser Krieg. the Aus
trian river monitors are lying, black
and ugly. In the stream.
AT n time there were seven mont
tors. but there are only six now. and you
n generally see three. one Of which
always has steam up, with a picket boat
on guard over them. What you cannot
see Is nat they are lying inside a room
for since their number was reduced
from seven TO six by a pretty piece Ct
torpedo work or the part of the solitary
little picket boat. commonly known as
The Terror Of the Danube the enemy's
monitors have been singularly unenter-
prising.
tA' wv w o'V'u w w Y
reasons why nothing must be known In
England Of the composition OF the mixed
artillery force which under Gen. Jivko-
witch, military commander OF the dis
trict. has charge OF the defence of Bel
grade. Its composition is thoroughly
we'll known TO the Austrians. The essen
tial facts have been published in French.
American. Swiss n other newspapers.
But II appears hat the most calami-
to,,a ,anpan,,a,1aa ,ploht ha axpar.oI N
follow any publication OF the same facts
Ia England. one can say nothing. then,
except that the force is charmingly cos
%nopolitan. and hat the young gentle
men II cannot, happily, at the momen'
remember their nationality. for | have
not seen them since lunch) who havt
charge of The Terror OF the Danube
have great larks with 1t. They poke
their way on dark nights into creeks
and PASSAGES where they are not In the
least expected and annoy the Austrians
dreadfully.
The Austrions have three picket gun
boats which look like toy d~readnoughts
with machine guns MOUNTS In their tur.
rets. Any one OF them could eat up the
Terror in a few minutes IL II could gel
at IL. But the Terror comes up when II
Is nice and dark and makes rude re-
marks with It's single machine gun &c
one of the dreadnoughts and then runs
like n hare. Ten days & one OF the
dreadnoughts chased II into a prepared
mine field and the d~readnought's rem
nants drifted ashore on kojara Island,
In midstream. where the hull and tur-
rets are plainly visible from Belgrade.
THE crew escaped. n they threw
the machine guns overheard; but ever
so the Terror next day got a lively
haul Of plumber out Of her, from ma
chine gun ammunition and automatic
pistols 10 a g~ramophone with an excel
lent stock of records. as well as the
~dreadnought's ensign and pennon, three
Admiral's and one Generals flags