Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-15
FRANCE PRAISED
BY KING PETER:
SALUTES AMERICA
Serbian Monarch, Shattered
and Broken, Tells of Aus
trian Invasion

Aedypsos, Eubea, Greece, April -.
-(Correspondence of The Associated
Press) - Colonel Todorovitch, aid de
camp of His Majesty King Peter of
Serbia, clapped his heels together
and bowed from the hips.
His Majesty would be glad" he
said in German. IF you would walk
with him this afternoon"
The Hotel of THE Baths of Sulla"
was bathed in flood of welcome win
ter sunshine. Snow-clad Parnassus,
across the Gulf of Eubea, glistened
like Christmas card. F'ishermen's
boots, picked out against the gleam-
ing water between, rowed by banks of
cars like ancient triremes, crept back
and forth or with sails set aswing,
scudded before the light breeze.
King Peter of Serbia came down the
steps of the hotel into the sunlight,
short, slight figure supported by
cane, but jauntily carried withal He
wore the gray-brown Serbian uniform
with the blue cavalry collar and
cavalry breeches with the broad, red
stripe of a general. on his shoulders
the silver threaded, tarnished epaul-
cites We're mounted by a Serbian eagle
and his short-peaked cap OF the Ser
bian officer bore the like in it's center
An eagle face with hooked nose; a
bristling white moustache and white
imperial short-clipped, iron-gray hair
and brown, almost unSeeing eyes
whose iris seems to have become all
pupil-a little man, but strong, for
all his seventy-two years-such the
King without a country.
Earth Turns Against Me"
The Associated Press correspond
ent walks on the right of the sovereign
for King Peters right ear is slightly
less deaf than his left one. Striking
out with eager step, the monarch
just barely feeling his steps. The
path leads past the curious formation
of sulphurous alkaline deposit hang
ing out over the sea in an irridescent
mass. Here and there out of little
holes in the porus mass the steaming
water bubbles up, too hot to hold ones
hand in, and then disappears only to
reappear again near the edge, keep
inng the lip of the strange deposit
wet and shining in the sunlight.
"Nolcanic-all volcanic says the
old King, turning over bits of gem
like stone with his sticks end. THE
day before you came. we had an
earthquake shock-a little one" And
then, as he leads the way again up
the hill. Even the earth turns against
me-" he adds ruefully. And tapping
the yellow ground with his cane:
There must be some Austrians buried
under there" And he laughs
merrily.
The way leads past some shallow
quarries whore peasants. men and
women. rough-hew the porous. vol
canic stone for their building. As the
little party advances, they stop their
work and put down their tools The
men stand bareheaded. the women
bow, while fallen majesty passes them
by. Soldier fashion. King Peter
salutes the simple folk who love him.
"They are sorry for me-" he en-
plains. "and they try to tell me that
they are sorry for me. in their kindly;
wordlCss way. They have great
hearts. Sir --- like the people or
your country; plain people. as 7 am
a plain man."
You are wrong. Sire" saws Jivoin
BalougdGitch. he Serbian Minister to
Greece. who for many wears was King
Peters secretary. "Those simple
folk stand uncovered, not out of pity.
but out of admiration. They aren't
sorry for you-they respect you.'
The monarch puts his arm around