Newark post., 1915-06-02

Another letter tells of journey
to Belgrade, during the lombard
ment in February, which had been
undertaken in the hope of obtain
ing some things for their home life
in Nish. Unfortunately the day
this lady chose to return to Bel
grade proved one in which there
was the heaviest firing. AS she
and the father walked along a
street near the theatre the sudden
explosion of bomb terrified them,
and they turned aside to seek re-
fuge in the house of a friend in
the next street. Here as they ap-
preached the house another bomb
struck it, covering them with
bricks and dust.
"In my terror" the mother
writes, "it seemed as if the shell
itself was made of bricks" The
wife and two daughters of their
friend were killed and the friend
himself was wounded.
AS they were making their way
to the police station, where they
sought refuge, they meet another
friend, a professor who told them
he had been walking a few min
utes before with two men, one on
each side of him, when he acci-
dentally changed to the outside.
In a few minutes the man in the
center was killed by a piece from
{ bomb and fell to the pavement,
while the others were only slight
ly injured. When he met the
mother and father the professor
was still shaking with the excite
ment of his escape.
After this they went to the po-
lice office, where they were inform
ed that thirty persons had been
killed by Austrian bombs in the
past half hour. At the police sta
tion the father and mother were
advised to try the Grand Hotel
They went there and were given
a room through the kindness OF
Sir Thomas Upton, who as dis
tinguished guest doing much fol
Serbia had been allowed generous
accommodations. Several Eng,
)ish correspondents had just come
in from the fortress of Belgrade
and were highly excited by what
they had seen and greatly rejOiceC
at the chance Of describing the
bombardment.
1T seemed wrong" the mother
goes on to say in her letter, "bu
while talking with these men | al
most forgot about the terrors w,
had been through and laughed
when they narrated something
e amusing"
: "In writing about the epidemi
| of typhus at Nish, the mothe
T. says: at is impossible for anyon
: not on the spot to imagine the dis
5 tress and misery Of the people
. Hundreds of wounded and typhu
} stricken soldiers lie on the groun
outside of the doors of our hOsp1
| tails waiting for admittance, an
2 some Of them die there befor
r they can be taken in. There ar
j now three to four hundred death
s daily from typhus at Nish. 1t
t the custom in Serbia" she cor
= tinues, when there is a death
family to hang a black flag frol
n one of the windows of the house
n but now when a flag hangs out
means that a number of person
It have died there" She describe
S how the wives of the farme,
s wear as mourning black kerchie1
r around their heads. On mark'
e days at Nish the mother write
Y she meets hundreds of mark'
n women with these black head co
e erings, and, terrible as their nee
o must be, she feels compelled
e avoid buying from these Wome
It for fear of the infection that ma
z, lurk around them. The head
the hospital where the mother toi
? has died of typhus, the son of Il
m Serbian Red Cross chief has die
as well as some seven relation
and friends of the kind lady WI
n has sent her daughter word of {
>. these happenings in the hope tn
I'd they might stimulate the intere
I'd Of Americans in the unhappy lit
land.