Arizona sentinel., 1918-02-14
From the Committee Public Information, Washing
 ton, D.. O.

i Not long ago, in the Vienna parliament Dr. Otokar a Sovene deputy protesting against the systematic exter- imitation of the Serbian population said:
 Go to the Balkans and you shall see how the former flouriShing and villages but Smodering ru- lns Not military necessity but the deliberate will of the authorities has deVasted lands in such manner as has not been witnessed in Europe since Kossovo Our unhappy people has been scattered the winds from whole districts the military authorities have carried off and old men and children just did the Assyians and Babyonans the conquered peoples of ancient times.
 From the vicinity of Nish alone the enemy have car.
 ed away 3OOOO persons the deserts of Asia Minor It is war o extermnaton of the Jugosavs The allies speak about restoration of Serbia and the uncation of the Ser ban Serbia they may save but not the Serbs and ugoSavs for there will be there all to rejoice in che blessing of peace"
 Now, in the Hungarian parliament in Budapest smi- lar protest has been raised by the Socialist Deputy Mr. Zo Vermes who referring to the barbarty of the enemy and their crimes against the unfortunate population of Ser oia said:
 As the commandant of a detachment my duties called to the mining village of Madenpek in occupied Serbia from which neghborhood obtained the pyrtes necessary or the manufacture of munitions The monarchy needs some 2OOOO tons o pyrites of which quantity this alone produces 10000 regular working force there Iore of capital importance the monarchy There are working in the mne O8O aborers nvalded soldiers and nterned persons from the Serbian civilian population But he mine adjacent to the Bulgarian administrative terri tory where the enemy pursues with the creest severity bands of insurgent Serbs whose relatives they sysemaca put death thus Maidanpek executions are the order of the day. Nobody troubles bury the dead of those who thus meet their fate; after another whole villages are cleared of the friends and relatives of these unhappy people the Bugarians round the people and send them off some 70 the Dubrodja others to Asia Minor
 n this way farms left masterless and cattle stray over the country and the richest villages fall into state of utter Wretchedness that the workmen in the mine unable procure the bares necessares of
 e Representations had been made without result to the Bulgarian government It appears, indeed that the Ter not urgent in Bulgarian eyes Therefore the moral obligation rests with the Hungarian government of taking the matter into its hands and of trying to save the lives of at least proportion of these poor people, But this only special nsanCe there a crying need on every land for more humane administration of these lands For 1eary four years children have gone without any choong sick people have been allowed die without any medical assistance aleviatons of any kind loathsome diseases have spread amongst the people, and yet there is lot the slightest attempt any beerment of conditions )n the part of the administration"
 These speeches may therefore be taken as the best proof of the deliberate and criminal exermnaon of Ser an people, can be imagned what state of affairs pre- ades in Serbia when persons nhgh places among the ra powers compelled protest against the cruelty of his regime.
 is earnestly to be hoped that the government will 20 fight ahead with it's plans drain the agoons and lands a If