The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-21
u. S. MONEY Is
SAYING SERBIANS
DR.. M. Nintchitch Declares That Serbia
Has Suffered More Than ANY
Other County in This
War

| Corfu, Island of Corfu, Nov. II (Stafl
| correspondence. of the Associated Press -
| "The funds advanced to Serbia by the
| United States government are saving
the lives of the Serbian people," said the
Serbian minister of public works, DR..
Monticello Nintchitch, who has been
charged with the expenditure of the ad-
vances from the American government.
DIR. Nintchitch had been telling of the
various uses the American money was
put to, for the 10000 Serbian prisoners
in Germany and for interned civilians,
refugees and pensions. But now he
turned to story of the cruelty and
butchery which the Bulgars are still
prosecuting against the Serbs.
Serbia has suffered more than any
other country" said DR.. Nintchitch, "for
not even the ruin OF Belgium and the
devastated regions of France can com
pare with what Serbia has suffered. The
people of Belgium and France had sea
ports to 60 to and escape in ships, and
they had railways. But the Serbian peo-
pie had no ports for escape, and when
the Monastir railway was cut by the
Bulgars they had no railway. So they
were literally caught in a trap, with no
means of egress, and except for those
who made the exodus across the noun
tains, the whole peasant population has
come under the control of the Bulgar in
vaders. Moreover Belgium and France
have been under the eyes of England
and America, while Serbia is cut off
from the world, with no knowledge of
what goes on there, and no mail from
there for two years
"The Serbian peasants have been
stripped of everything All their horses,
cattle and livestock have been taken, and |
their farm machinery has been de- |
5troyed. Men, women and children have |
been killed in the most revolving man !
ner and on the most fiimsy pretext. In |
this the Bulgars go far beyond the Aus
TRANS, for the Austrians have a trial |
md formal condemnation to death |
But the Bulgars have no trial or CON
lemnation, The order to kill is given,
md the soldiers are practically free to
AXE life on their own judgment with
,ut any order
As documentary evidence of this kill
ng, the Serbian ministry of foreign af-
airs have had photographs, copies of
which were given to the correspondent
howing six Serb peasants strung up
ide by side from rough stakes driven
n the ground, with erosspiece above
or the moose, while groups of soldiers
nd officers are gathered about, laugh
ng over the contortions OF the victims.
The Bulgar policy is to consider Ser
ia and the Serbian people as annihilat
d" DR. Nintchitch went on. ITO this
nd they hold that the Serbs no longer
xist. and every Serb must become a
ulgar, take Bulgar name and become
Bulgar citizen. j
Our minister of war, General Ter
itch, has just gone through a trying {
lmily experience of this kind His aged
lother, over 20 years old, remained in
erbia after the exodus, as she was too {
ID and feeble to make the journey. All |
ace of her had been lost, but when she /
as finally located General Terzitch APP a
lied through the relief authorities for i
err transfer. But TO this application the t
ply has now come back from the Bull 2
ar authorities that Nine. Terzitch can a
Dt leave the country as she had become v
Bulgar citizen.
"The drafting of Serb peasants as sol a
ers in the Bulgar ranks is one of the
orst forms of cruelty being practiced. s
his is Systematically carried out, with 81
,tices posted in all public places telling a
men over IL years of age to report a
T military duty. This placing of
hole population in the military service y
the enemy is an unheard of cruelty, II
ID contrary to every rule of inter- b.
tional dealing in time of war. But it ST
justified by the Bulgar on the theory b.
at Serbia does not exist and that the d
RIBS are Bulgars.
"A member of the Serbian Chamber =
Deputies was here yesterday and gave
, narrowing report of his family
IN in Serbia One of the boys had
-eady been killed. The second boy had
en- ordered to become Bulgar soldier
lie mother protested, whereupon she
Is sent to Nish and put in prison,
lere she went crazy.e Meantime the
V ordered to become a Bulgar soldier
d escaped to the mountains and a
ce has been placed on his head. This
oerience in the family of the Serbian
putty is merely typical of the thous
Is we are hearing of from all quarters
ly.
We have received full details of the
olt which the Serbian peasants re-
lining in the country directed against
5 Bulgar oppression she minister