Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-01
BY u. PASIIITCH,
Prime AIinIster of Serbia.

Prime Minister of Serbia.
civilization is saved. The free ma :
,,ohs OF the earth are seeing the dawn
"I.d when suffering mankind has been
'"':.H.: through the ages
~ present Prussian milltarism is
thinn thar the role Great Britain
mas played Is the greatest even in ner
history. Without her Intervention Ger
many by now would have realized her
mad scheme OF world dominion. Mittei-
europa would have been fact to-day.
and from East TO West German trade.
backed by the enormous indemnitics
'eiied on her defeated foes. would he
attaining unprecedented power anu
The Balkan peoples. who before the
war were economically in the power of
Germany. would have been par, of the
new world empire.
Without Great Britain and her great
navy and her merchant feet the Amer
sans could not have sent their power
81 Mr.. Lloyd George mat We of the
serbian nation attribute great deaf
largely responsible for securing the
unity OF command under Marshal Foch,
which has struck the mortal blow at
the German armies.
The victory Of the allied armies In
ne Balkans and the surrender OF Bull
Saria were the biggest blows that Ger
man prestige in the East has suffered.
ana is. ever likely TO suffer in tho
future. sisnaied the end OF all
lhInEs FOR the Germanic powers.
Inc amazing British victories in Pal
"s'ine. and the overthrow OF Turkey
ana the elimination OF her influence IN
Europe are therefore Of but secondary
importance 10 the Balkan peoples COM
rared 70 the profound transformation
that will be wrought by the division
or Austria Hungary into state Of
separate nationalities.
SLAVES WHO ARE FORCED
no BOW TO OTHERS WILL
l. has been estimated that In Ger
many and Austria Hungary there are
"S,vOO.ooO people composing subject
purposes. forced 10 bow to the viii OF
governments bent on crushing all their
national aspirations toward free devel-
opmcnt.
In Austria Hungary there are about
tjo0.00o Siavs. composed OF Czccho-
Siovaks. Southern Slavs, Poles and
and .aans M these peopes ans
entirely subSerrent TO the Germans and
MaEyars who; although numerically m
ing TO the official statistics OF 1910.
control the government and are the
absolute rulers.
Including about 100000 Poles and
100000 Alsatians and I.orrainians in
Germany, this brings the total TO about
35.ooo.0oo who are the slaves OF the
All these millions OF people now stand
IN the threshold of freedom such as
they have never known and scarcely
dared to. dream OF. They. have, been
the hands OF the allied armies jus,
IS eagerly as have the people OF North
think that they ever lost faith in Bri-
tain and in the final victory or the
sllies., with the unconditional surren-
'on Will be brough, about.
President wilson. in the tenth OF his
fourteen points. says:
whose place among the nations we
wish TO sec Sa fcsua rded and assured.
should he accorded the first opportunity
OF autonomous development" THIS
message, of hope. ! confidently believe.
is shortly to be fulfilled.
we Scrbians. now that our soldiers
are rapid'y recovering our stricken
with our brothers In peace. the Juro-
Saws. Our soldiers arc already In the
old capital OF Nish. avengng the
men who we're so grossly betrayed in
the early DAYS of the war
Serbia. like Northern France and
Belgium. has been stripped bare OF
everything that could be taken away.
destroyed The Bulgars took our cat
tic. our agricultural machinery. the
machinery in our factories. the furni-
tuye and fittings in our homes. even our
books.
There were no very poor people in
Serbia in normal times. nor very
nation Is destitute and will have to
begin life all over again. The crimes
committed by The Austro- Hungarians
and the Eulgars in our country mus.
no. go unpunished.
The Serbian and Rounanian prison.
crs in the hands OF the, enemy were sub
icc,ed to terrible brutalities. and con-
ditons In the camps where they were
chartered were as bad as. ii not worse
than those in the prison camps in Ger
many.
in the count against Serhia's enemies.
cxccnt that the atrocities committed
by the Rnicars were not so highly or
~ani2ed. Scrbia's popuiatin,, suffered
ii'st as cruelty. and tens of thousands
Of mon. women and children have died
Of slow starvation.
II is for the allies as q whole to de-
eide who IS TO be punished for the
crimes of this war and what the pun
ishment is to he. IL would be as well
!not to ever, "yeriook the fact that 1870 of
nnenlv. declared their support and
arden.lv advocated Gcrmany's war OF
ccn"nest and the inhuman methods
he included in any Indictment thai
msv he drawn up.
with regard to the fate of the
10 nnint out hat &c the kaiser ahdi
Gated he. would he sure to come hnc,,
ina year or two No sort of written
guarantee wnu,' n"ev"nt him from re
am afraid that Prussia would glad.
" welcome back the head Of the
IlohenzolIerns. and at the peace co.,
fercrre she would plead the right az
se|f-determination and the right m
choose her own rulers.
What we must make certain about
is 10 make 1t impossible for Prussia
ever again 10 have II In her will To
impose her power on other nationa II :
ties. ~
Personally. I think IL will be "a Ions
limo before Russia rccovers from her
present tragic condition. and then !
think she will be divided into .fedc:-
ated states.
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q. EATTIE November m The ,nN