New Britain herald., 1918-06-24

ginning of her military career and she was eventually commissioned as full ticdged army sergeant.
 Sold Into Slavery.
 Speaking of the untold sufferings of the Serbian refugees, Sergeant Farnam said that of 30, 900 refugees who fled before the Aust rians, scarce ly 5000 survived and not more than 5000 were capable of enduring any further hardship. She also spoke feelingly of the terrible treatment accorded the young girls. The Ser bian girls do not mature any younger than the American girls, she said. yet she declared that fully 30,0OO young girls from 10 years of age and up were absolutely sold into slavery to the Turks. Present conditions in Serbia are terrible. There is a scar city of both food and clothing. She said that despite their hardships the Serbians will not beg, they do not know how to beg. As an example she told of many of the men, women and children who trudge along the highway until they fall from eXhaus- tiOn and starve to death in the gut ter She said that a Serbian mother and her children will walk along the A walk past and although they know that he has food about his person they will not ask for it but will pre- fer to die alone, their feeling being that the soldier is 8 fighting man, fighting in the defense of their be- loved land and to fight he must have food
 The people of Serbia, Sergeant Farnam said, are a clean and moral race. She said that despite the fact that sometimes as many as 15 people live in single small house, they are clean and moral. She said that the houses are kept clean, within and without, and the owners are Contin- ually Whitewashing the walls to keep them so. There is no sanitary plumb ing in the houses. yet conditions are not bad and the absence of doors and windows in all but the front of the houses do not make much difference Flax growing and weaving is one of the great jobs Of the people and the men beat the flax, while the women spin and weave it into linen.
 During her present visit to tn. United States Sergeant Farnam is col lecting fund for the relief of the starving people and the soldiers. This fund is being collected in the name of Miss Sims, who was with Sergeant Farnam last night. Miss Sims, who did not speak but responded graceful ly to an introduction is one of the war heroineS of Serbia. An American girl she went there as a war nurse and when she became stricken with the dreaded typhus fever she remained After a terrible siege she recoverd from the ravages of this awful disease and. expects to again return to carry on her work of relief. At last nights m meeting about $500 was collected as a free will offering for the relief of the SerElans.
 Following her general talk Sergeant F'arnam showed a series of about twenty stereopticOn slides. depicting conditions in Serbia. These ranged from the peaceful pictures of ante bellum days to the ravaged condition of the country after the war. Par ticularIy impressive was a picture of Serbian soldier who was almost starved to death The picture showed him to be so emaciatcd that he was simply a living skeleton, a living mass of bones and skin. Another striking picture was of a Serbian soldier the hero of many battles, who had been compelled to fall out of the line be- cause of his weakened condition Starving. he was seated on the steps of a house there to die, alone and friendless.
 From first to last, Sergeant Far nam declared, Serbia is a noble coun- try peopled by a nobleJrace who are fighting one of the brayJeste battles of the age and who becadse of$2 tl1eiri geographical condition, are in reality