The Prescott daily news., 1916-01-03

Only Those Who Outfooted the Buiga-
 rans' Cannon Were Able to Escape,
 Road of Retreat So Narrow That the
 Regiments Were Forced to March In
 Double File. ......
 In dispatch from Rome to the Chi cago Daily News Louis Edgar Browne tells of the sufferings of the Servian soldiers who made their way into Al bania after the crushing defeat of their army at Prisrend.
 Three routes of retreat" says Mir Browne, were open to the army. The main route was through Lumkulus, at the junction of the Black and White Drin rivers. Another route was through Jacovitza and Ipek into Monte negro and the last was from Prisrend southward into Albania via the old Ro- man road to Dibra, ElbRssan and Du. ra2zo. All three are absolutely i'm passable for vehicles. Each is nothing more than mule path over high, pre- cipitous. snowbound mountains.
 "The last orders of the general staff read. Fall back on Scutah and Du- razz0, using the three passes But the Austro- Germans and especially the Bulgars advanced so rapidly that the Serbs were unable to cover tha retreat. for by suddenly invading Montenegro the Austrian troops cap tured JacovitZa and closed the Ipek passes so quickly that scarcely 5000 Serbs retreated that way.
 Retreated In Double File.
 "The invasion of Dular by Bulgar bands armed with mountain batteries closed the Dular route, and only the Lumkuus pass was left for the retreat of T0.000 men. For twenty miles in the Drin pass three men cannot walk abreast The army retreated snake like in double file, tue line extending mile after mile, the troops sbufIling along like Respondent, beaten men.
 At the entrance of the pass, twenty miles from Prisrend. were 10000 men struggling madly to enter and escape the enemy. Lumkulus pass is like a funnel The Drin river, draining the plain of PriSrend. dashes through narrow gorge. The Servians all tried to get through the pass at the same time Five days after the defeat at lriSrcnd 35,000 men had entered the pass Then the Bulgar artillery caught the range of the entrance to the pass, and after that all attempt ing to enter were killed.
 For five hours the artillery wrecked terrific slaughter on the nonressting Seryians, who only hudd'ed together like sheep and turned their backs to inc storm of high explosives and shrap- u"l The great mass of Servians in the rear rushed forward on those ahead and showed them to death. It was like Il panic stricken crowd rushing from burning theater Then the ServiauS threw down their rifles, and the BulEars took back to Prisrend 46 ooo of them as prisoners.
 Those who escaped began at Lum- kulus a struggle for life worse than the struggle to escape the Bulgar shells
 The first contingents were compoS- ed mainly of men with infected wounds and feet covered with blisters. Daring starvation, they arrived in Scutari in thirteen days after leaving Prisrend, They had gone through q vertable hell, and doubt if any but the giant Servian fighters could have done it.
 When the men left Prisrend they had q three days supply of bread. When that was finished they had noth- ing more except what they found by the roadside. When horse fell from exhaustion the soldiers immediately skinned it and ate chunks of raw meat torn with bayonets from the carcass. l saw many soldiers eating raw horse meat with apparent relish. One of the soldiers made soup of n donkey's leg bones, The Servian Crown Prince Al. exander saw man eating the raw in- sides of a horse"