Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-13


 the people, even in Belgrade. all the more because il was believed that French and English troops were even then on their way from Saloniki to Nish, and possibly to Belgrade. No very grave concern was felt until the afternoon, when the incessant severity of the firing, the wholesale destruction being done to the lower part of the town where many buildings were al ready on fire. and finally the tick-tack of the machine guns proved that an attack upon the islands in the Save was being made for the purpose of landing. that people began to leave the town. Admiral Trowbridge of the British naval detachment with the of ficers of his staff, drank tea with some ladies in pretty summer house which only twenty-four hours later was de- molished by the explosion of shell.
 '''All day long the German aeroplanes two of them. hung over the city direct ing, the fire. It was continuous upon the roads leading out of the city. IL was the big guns that took the heart out of the men, It was their helpless ness at being battered by weapons far beyond the range of anything that we had which made it seem so hopeless. The positions on the two great hills hApnnA nnloradn f1h hoI ha- fore been captured, not even by the Turks, in all our history. fell before the long 13-inch guns of the Austrians and Germans"
 Madame Grouitch made the retreat with the Serbian rear-guard. She left town after town in the morning, which was occupied in the afternoon by Aus trians and German pursuers. Later, the trip through the mountains to Sal oniki was by horseback or by cart through wild country
 ~The reason officials and women with them were among the last to leave places was because they did not want the population to be in panic, '' explained Madame Grouitch. Tt was not possible for the Serbian govern. ment to forbid people to leave their homes, but it seemed far better for them to stay where they lived rather than to take the road without food or any means of transportation. and in a desolate country. We did meet ev- anywhere parties of people along noun tain roads and mere paths. When any body fell out in the fog they were lost because they were left behind and there was no one to look after them Some women of high society in Bel grade were found dead along the roads,
 What became of the Austrian pri- soners. 10000, which the Serbians had 
 They were sent on some days be- fore to make roads" replied Madame Grouitch.
 q hear that only 32,O0O of them reached the Albanian coast where they have been transferred to Italian 1s- lands?" said the correspondent.
 'T don't know how many of them got through" said Madame Grouitch but they were in the same position as Serbian soldiers, many of whom died of cold and hunger in the retreat. When the Serbians left the cultivated parts of the country they were simply going into the vacant mountain spaces where there was no food. no rest, noth ing to go to.
 ''The Serhians treated their prison CTS with kindness. I know that it of ten used to be said that we were too sentimental about them, that we gave the Austrians more than regular ra. tions. while the Serbian soldier had only the usual ration. Even during our flight we used to meet parties of Austrian prisoners, and if any of us had any bread left, all the women and some of the men would give it to them Thirty-two of us had only sixty loaves of bread during five days. The allow ance for the day was dealt out each morning. and if when evening came you didn't have any bread left, there was no possibility of getting more So that anyone who gave bread to a prisoner did so by going without him self"
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