The Sentinel=record., 1915-02-09
SUFFERING INTENSE;
 TROOPS UNDAUNTED
SERBIA GIVES EVIDENCE OF HAVING BORNE HER PRoPoR-
 TON OF THE SACRIFICES.
The Motto of the Serbian Army Is "Something to Defend; Something to Reclaim"

| Skopvle. Serbia, Feb. 6,-Serbla' once the focal point of the European war hut later lost to view in the maelstrom which swept the greater mowers into the struggle gives ample evidence of having borne her just proportion of the sacrifices Of the ha- uons. Suffering on all sides is in" tense, but the spirit of the troops Is undaunted.
 Since the recent defeat of the Aus trians freed Serbian soil of invaders, plans have rapidly gone forward Tor the next move in the great game or war-the offensive. Hundreds oi wounded soldiers in the hospitals have told the correspondent of the As sociated Press that they feel thelr second life purpose will be lost II they are unable to help in the dellv- erance of their kinsmen on Austro Hungarian territory. The Serbian offensive will be shared by the Rus sians and the hope is expressed here land at Nish that Roumanian troops also will be in the column hurled across the Hungarian frontier
 The motto of the Serbian army IS | l"Something to defend; something to reclaim The something to defend
 was the independence of their king dom. The something to reclaim IS that part of the ancient Serbian em- lpire which even after the victories
 over the Turks and Bulgars, still lies loutside the limits of the Serbian
 kingdom.
 The traveller in Serbia is somewhat , dazed at first to discover among the prisoners of war a large percentage
 of Serbs of the purest race and
 tongue. Living in Austrian territory thehy were forced to serve in that army until a surrender gave them the opportunity to serve their own coun- ltry. Some are helping in the mill
 tary hospitals while others are doing scout and picket duty along the Al
 banian border.
 , Lying far beyond the European war
 center. Serbia seemed a difficult des-
 tination for journey beginning at
 New York. but experience proved easier than anticipation Belgrade, the front door of the Balkans, was impossible indeed but Salonika the back door. was found hospitably open.
 In wartime back doors and side alleys
 are apt to be safer and quicker means
 of getting about than guarded doors
 and fortified frontiers
 With Paris easily attained the rail journey from there to Brindisi via Turin and Milan, differed little from
 what it might have been in ordinary times The crowds of uniformed sol
 diers at the stations and the remark
 able number of women in mourning, however, gave evidence of the change of the past few months. Swift little l1talian steamers make the journey from Brindisi 10 Salonika an enjoy
 able one, ending always with an in' lspiring view of Mount Olympus, upon
 which the Greek peasants still be-
 leve the ancient gods sit in judg
 ment over the fate of Greece.
 Clean, comfortable, first class cars
 take the traveller from Salonika to Diejeli. at the Serbian frontier. A
 change of trains at this point brings
 no deterioration in railroad facilities.
 These trains are daily crowded with ISerbians of the better class who left
 their homes in the interior during the
 Austrian invasion, but are returning
 to them, assured it is safe to do so. At Djejeli the chief of customs.
 Mir. Simitch. invited the correspond-
 ent of the Associated Press, together
 with other foreigners, into his office where Turkish coffee and cigarettes were served. This courtesy was re.
 peated by officials at nearly every
 station where the train stopped and
 Is one with which the traveller meets
 in all parts of the Balkans.
 A splendid new municipal building
 at Djejeli was converted into a hos