The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-08

reopened and succeeded in localizing
the disease. But already 5000 Serbian
prisoners had persisted. The camp had
become vast Serbian grave. In order
to conceal this crime, the dead were
buried by the hundred in one gravc.
Then the earth was leveled, and IN
Orthodox chapel erected on the ste
and the inscription put up:
. Here are Buried Serbian Soldiers
Who Died Of Wounds Received in the
Austro -Hmoaro Serbian War Provoked
by Serbia
tuberculosis has claimed more vic
Tins than any other disease among the
Serbian prisoners. Cases Of insanity
are likewise frequent. According Il
the account of an Austrian medical
man. there are concentrated in kri-
zoyci, in Croatia, more than 5000 Serbs
prisoners Of war and dcportrd per
sons, who have become insane.
| Tho statistics recently published
| by the Austrian and German authori-
/ ties prove that this information is col
rect. The total number Of Serbian
prisoners in these two countries is at
| present not supposed to exceed 10000
ii we compare this figure with that
| given by the Frankfurter Icitung-
viz: l22 ,921-we are driven TO M
conclusion that 52,951 Serbs have al
ready died III Germany and Austria
Hungary, that Is to say, almost 30 PEI
cent.
"As regards the Serbian prisoner;
of war and deported civilians in Bal
garia, their exact number is not ye
known to the Serbian Red Cross -
puIOario hos ,,u+ Earlp1f u.
Of the pale Of humanity by tramplin.
under foot all international principle
and conventions By refusing all info,
nation regarding her prisoners, by for
bidding all correspondence between he
prisoners and their families. What i
known for fact is that some 1000
old men, women and children have bee
derorted by the Bulgars to Turkey an
Asia Minor. after the recent +etol
: against the Bulgarian government j
southern Serbia.
=" As regards the dcported (nterned
Serbs in Austria Hungary, who alread
number more than 10000, they n
T likewise in wrctched plight. In the
camps YOU may see children Of frol
10 to l6 years, whom the authoriti,
dare to call comitadiiS, and who wee
+ badges Of shame on their caps an
Z Jackets. In these camps, too, the mo
. talitE il very nigh. 1t must not !
5 forgotten that tha inmates Of the,
a camps are mainly officials, lawyers, ~
= fcssors-in short. the leading men
Y the country, together with many won
s. an and children.
/ Let AS bear in mind that all til
Il went ON while the parcels sent off
q the Serbian prisoners by. the vario
n committees established in France N
ID Switzerland still reached their destin
y ton, although in insufficient quantit
il is true. But now the position
NJ completely altered. Switzerland, beil
S strictly rationed, has forbidden All e
?. port Of foodstutfs as from Sept /.
S The problem Is therefore most Sc
~ Gus. II is a case Of saving what
II left ot tie pick Of the male populate
T. OF an allied country which has duri
the course of this terrible war lost
~ lquarter Of its population. With wh
Is is left Of The Serbian army on the :
ut oniki front, the Serbian prisoners
he war and dcported civilians IN cHel
IS counties represent, as II were, the |;
y resources and one hope Of the Serbi
IT. nation