The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-04

scented last December a note of protest to the neutral countries, in which she accuses the French and British of using dunn dunn bullets in Serbia. This note states. that the bullets have torn flesh and bones in pieces, that ! nothing was left to be accompishe d by arnputation,- that the hospitals in | Macedonia, especially in Neskueb, are overfi1led with wounded -Bulgarians, who show and prove with their bodies in truth inexpressible atrocities and most intense suffering. The note pro- tests for the third time in the name of the sacred duty of humanity | against this barbarous use.' The French have used dunn dunn Outlets l exclusively in the battles near KrivQ-- lak and Kara-Su against the Bulgar- fans, according-to the note
 Italian newspapers print, that the Relief corps of the Allies had lost l 35,000 men, when they returned to ] Sa1oniki. When this army moved 1 northward towards Serbia the Allies had to pay in gold and in advance for : (each military train, moving out of 1 Saloniki. It shows, what the Greeks 1 think of the Allies. A Swedish busi- ness man, returning from Greece, told i the following story in Berlin. When he attended a motion picture show in 1 app1auded the picture of Joffre, that the Greek officers in uniform showed their disguest by whistling, that Hin denburg and the Kaiser were greeted with laundering applause
 s'On Dec. 16, the war council of the Allies at Paris ordered, enlarge event of the army at Saloniki up to O,000 men.
 1 ''The British have broken the neu- tra1ity of Corfu, which they guaran- teed with their signature ins 1864. They occupied this Greek Island and are using now the winterpaIace of Kaiser Wilhelm as a, hospital.
 r tfWounded officers, WSRo returned from Serbia, state, that the Germans l and sAustrians suffered very much from the weather during October and the first half of. November. It rained 1 in October daily for two weeks At | last the roads became so muddy, that the automobiles would sink two feet ] deep. It took wagon two days to travel as far as wagon would come i in an hour in other parts of Western l Europe. Autos, trucks horses got stuck in the mud; bridges were wash l ed away. The soldiers never suffered so much during the whole war It is no wonder, that thousands of Serbians l gave up and surrendered, as they
 were literally starving. On different 1 places our troops found dead Serbian l officers, who had been killed by their
 own men with shovels, the dead
 
 l vo1ver, with which he intended to
 threaten his men. Our men oIvfde ed 1 their last piece of bread with the l hungry Serbians, slept with no other cover but the soaked overcoats and tramped in the daytime through the mud, which reached up to the knees | But the great order Forward" kept l them, moving, so that they did not | feel the exhaustion. In favor of the Serbians it must be admitted, that l the retreating Serbian army has not Edestroyed villages and cities, like ths l Russians have done in Poland. In deed, almost every Serbian village ir I the war-zone looks untouched. '. N'The Italians have bombarded the open city of Gorizia for weeks. The
 population has been reduced from 35, 900 to 12 ,000. The latter live in eel
 lars The palace of the bishop or Via Signori has been destroyed total Iy; also 100 residences on the sanG street. The hospital was hit by sever ] bombs
 When the Italians were driven out o1 Tripolitania, they lost 5000 men kill
 milton, which fell into the hands of the
 Semissi. This Arabian tribe establish ed headquarters six miles from the cit1
 of Tripoli, the last stand of the Ital
 ians in Africa.
 Swiss travellers, returning from Pa T ris, report, that the French are incen sed against the Italians on account O.
 their failure to support the Serbians
 The Paris newspaper, 'Humanite'
 speaks in bitter words against Italy
 Two thousand angry Parisians- started
 to march in protest towards the Ita1
 ian embassy. but the crowd was dis persed by mounted police. This hap
 pened on Dec. IS.
 At Christmas time Great Britain
 was in fear, that all travel through Pthe Suez Canal would come to an end Freight rates to India were raised 3t
 to 40 per cent. It is feared, that
 the Turks will block the passage witt
 explosives This is the reason, why the Dutch government has ordered