Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-28
Story Of Demented Youth In the Defeated
Serbian Army Shows Great
Suffering Endured

| the road. His foot was terrible. II
should have been cut off. l gave him
a piece of bread. II do not want
bread" he screamed. Il want a bullet.
Kill me, Please kill me. II is almost
night time and | cannot endure to lie
here in the night and die so slowly"
We found a little Albanian farmhouse
nearby and we made them take the
Austrian in; they had before turned
him away from the house because they
were afraid to care for a prisoner.
School Boys Are 8arefooted.
our food is short two days afterward.
sim we must walk. still we must sleep
in the rain and the cold. our shoes are
falling to pieces. our feet are sore.
The fourth night we sit beside the fire.
1t is too cold and wet to sleep. The
hours are tedious. Some men cry.
There are shrieks. One man curses his
mother for bearing him. Some of these
boys, you understand, are crazy with
their suff@rlngs. We are near the p
of Mount Korab, n mile and n half high.
II is like the north pole. VIII God ever
let us set to safety? In the morning
there is an inspection OF boots Sixty
per cent Of us school boys were found
harofooted,
But we set to Lake Orchida, some
how We do not try to talk on the way.
II Nou say something to n man he will
answer YOU something crazy that YOU
cannot understand. why talk? To the
old monastery at st. Naum we must
go, Seven hours more march takes us
there
There was no fire stove In any room
in the old ruin. Floors were old
boards on which We slept with the
draft blowing on us through the cracks,
There We're no window glasses. Six
days went by. No food came to us.
The wind is blowing the rain into our
rooms. We are sitting hungry and
looking at each other without speaking
n word.
Youth Went Crazy.
Il am the son OF King Peter. am
the successor OF Christ" voice is
heard in hallway We do not speak.
But we wonder at the words, and lis
ten. youths. I have money. win
give shoes and comfort to you all and
take YOU all to America" We still
keep quiet and look at each other and
listen. suddenly one of the soldiers
comes into the room bringing the youth
who has been talking with him. ~ am
tho son Of King Peter" says the youth
Pale, shivcring. with torn clothes, bare
footed, he stands before us and looks
ut us.
what is the matter with him." we
all ask
He has gone crazy" says his COM
panion, He begged for something to
eat for many hours. Then he kept say
Ing Make me warm. Can't YOU make
me warm" Now he says he is King
Peters SON"
We looked at each other with emo
tion. But we could do nothing. The
next day we had orders to go to Or
chida and. after marching seven hours,
we came to the little town where we
could set bread. For seven and a half
days we had eaten nothing. Then we
started to march to Saloniki, in Greece.
John, the demented boy, marched with
us crying almost all the time for his
mother and sisters and his country and
his father who was a merchant in Bel
grade.
Now he is In the Serbian camp in
Saluniki. When visitors ask who he
is the nurses say, THAT Is John Cir
glitch. Of Nranjc, a school boy Is years
old, n soldier OF the Fourth company
of students, who. from hunger and
cold and a broken heart for his coun-
try, went crazy"