New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-16

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PIP AZ. The Ceatury Company
TuF, STORY OF A RED CROSS UNIT IN
sERvIA By James Berry. B. s; r X c; =;
Bl.sse, IL. ", and Other Members OF ths
Unit. Illustrated. sTo. ID. ". 2sz. London
j. a A. Churchill
Surpassed in numbers, but not IN
suffering, by the Russian exodus, the
march into exile of all that remained
of Serbia. the remnants of her army
her civilian population, old and young
through tho murderous rigors or
balkan winter, is described ny MI
Jones. young American who went 70
Serbia in November, 1915, to do rellei
work. On this march to the Adriatlc
he took charge of a party OF Engilsh
nurses and brought them through In
safety. The Serbian flight before
Mackensen's soldiers had all the ele-
ments of tragedy Of the retreat OF the
Grande Armee from Moscow. Ana
more. for the worst sufferers were not
soldiers, but women and children, the
old and the feeble. Decentralization
there was; the youth Of the nation,
carried along to furnish the material
for the new Serbian army which even
now is in the field and IN action, mere
BOYS suddenly exposed to. trial so
severe that even veterans lost nope,
threw away their equipment OF arms
and ammunition and set the example
TO their seniors. But through all the
panic the national spirit held on and
survived to rise again.
The narrative grips; II vlsualizes the
horrors and agonies of nation IN
fight, clad in rags, freezing, starving,
diving by the roadside. Mr.. Jones ex-
presses freely his unfavorable opinion
of the British military and naval rep
resentatives in Serbia, and OF the
small British naval contingent which
had nothing but contempt for the
Serbians, nothing but admiration Tor
the enemy's thoroughness. lie denies
the tales Of Austro-Hungarian atroci-
ties and. in all truth, the retreat it
self furnished all the atrocities that
human mind can invent. On the other
hand. he knows that more than 100000
Austrian prisoners died from starva-
ton and exposure on that eight weeks
retreat. Out of the $4,000 that Serbia
held 5000 came. more dead than alive,
to the sea" They are now in Sar-
dina.
As for the conquest Of the typhus
epidemic in Serbia, America did some
thing, but not much ut has been
blatantly advertised" France and
England did more, but more credit
should be given to Russian money and
Russian workers than to any other
agency"
"The Story of British Red Cross
| Unit in Servia" is one of the most sym
pathetically human narratives of the
war we have seen thus far. The work
of many contributors, il bears a stamp
of unity which cannot be ascribed al
together TO the not unlikely services of
an able editor 1t is most strikingly a
unity Of spirit in willing service and in
cheerful encounter of hardships. There
was, first, the battle with typhus,
which was a battle with vermin and
dirt. The medical details, even. are Of
interest to the layman, since every one
Of US at the end of this "war to end
war" as the hopeful have called it, is
liable 10 take the field and be exposed
T. wars most deadly weapon, disease.
Then came the advance under Macken-
sen, and with it the wounded. Every
member of the unit praises the invad-
ers' courtesy, helpfulness and grateful