East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-01-07
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NoNASTIR Serbia Nov lS.-tBy
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% Serbia that has NOT fallen To the
enemy Win Il fan Nonastlr Is
waung 10 see. or part % Mooastt
. IS waiting. another part has ued to
Greece
We've heard the suns booming. but
how near the Pulsar5aus are we can't
tell No one is allowed 10 SO toward
the Bulsarian lines, II you want to
so eastward OF SouthWard 10 Greece
I the Serbian officials will gladly wise
your passport Al last night a train
% OK carts, the Serbian army trans
I ports, creaked over the rough cobble
stone streets.
We have come from Psrlepe. -"
said the drivers, with loads Of hay
and flour. We understand that We
are to so back again for more. The
Serbian army is up toward Perlepe
fighting the Bulgarians back from
this town that we are in and If the
Serbians are moving hay and flour
hack to Monastir from their front il
looks as if they were getting ready
To fan back 10 this point
The treaking Of these carts from
Ferlepe secretly gladdens more than
one heart in Monastir There are
many Bulgarians in this town. Until
the previous Balkan war three years
ago. Monastr and all the southern
part of present Serbia was a part Of
Bulgaria The Bulgarian and Serbian
allies quarreled and the Serbians took
Monastir.
Most Of the people here speak Bull
garian were educated in Bulgarian
schools and the history they learned
to consider most glorious is the his
tory Of Bulgaria. There are perhaps
twenty Serbian families in N0nastir
The population is 10000. The rich
Serbians have gone: the poor ones are
ready to go. Let them but hear that
the Bulgarians are near and they will
fear their neighbor before the Bull
garian soldiers come.
The Serbians do not permit the
EulEarians here TO have arms.
There is a price of twenty-five dol
lars on the head of every Bulgarian
comitadji dead or alive, caught in
Monastir. Within the last four weeks
Dr. Luikhart, of Philadelphia. has
conducted autopsies on fifteen men
killed in Monastir. Every dead man
was supposed to have been a Bull
sarian comitadji
The intrigues Of the Rio Grande
border are as simple as two times two
compared with the complications Of
Bulgarian and Serbian comitadjism
here. No one trusts anyone in Mona.
stir. The few Serbian officials rule
with on iron hand Two weeks ago
the Serbians ordered that any per.
son who refused to change ten
dinar paper bill when he could
should be taken before a court mar
tial and tried for treason for hoard
ing silver.
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garian merchant refused this change
and that the would be purchaser, so /
the story goes in the Bosnia coffee +.
house. denounced him TO the military /
who searched the premises and found /
1900 silver dinars hidden away .
Whereupon, so Monastir believes, the I
merchant was shot.
There's a touch OF Mechanism in
the situation In the markets you
hear Spanish spoken at every turn .
by Jews whose forefathers were driv-
en- into Macedonia from Spain over
500 years ago. Huerta's paper money
went as slowly in his last days in Mex.
leo as Serbian money is going here
now Twenty Serbian comitadjis
came to Monastir on the same train