The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-07

canal had it net been for the Serbian
engineers, who gave over their pom
toon bridges. II the Serbian cavalry
had not been in Egypt the British
could not have taken what they did.
When other nations were trying to
land forces in various parts OF the
world the Serbians had already reach
ed there before them. And yet Serbia
has been nicknamed the cockpit, the
swine of al civilized Europe.
II gave up everything to do my
share in the war. From my old abbey
window | could see the lights of Cal
ais on clear night. live but fifteen
minutes by aeroplane from the heart
of the Belgian atrocities. | have been
in Belgium in 1914 and have been
there lately, and | want you to know
that have never seen for one moment
such sights rs | have witnessed in
Serbia and the countries in that part
OF Europe
THE war is not over. The horrors
OF today are worse than the horrors
of war You call this peace. Here,
in America, il is peace, but nowhere
else in Europe Mr.. Wilson, Lloyd
George and Clemenceau know all
about il. | have asked Versailles to
give Serbia justice. They all tell me
that there are other matters of more
Importance TO be attended to first and
that when they get the time they will
look 1t up
You asked me to tell you something
about the conditions as found them.
That Is a comparatively easy matter.
The conditions are so terrible that 1t
is like reading Dante's Inferno to tell
you about them Six months ago was
standing in the marketpa ace of Ragisa.
There were large crowds of people
around me. Eliiah's we'll had Just
been emptied. They were gathering
mp the decomposed parts OF the body
of the Archbishop and his brethren
Gyps!es were selling clothes and
bones taken from dead Serbians. I
saw little child looking at body
which had been chewed by the hungry
dogs, asked her why she was crying
md her answer made a tear come 10
my eye 1T is my father" she said.
spent the night In house with an
old Serbian clergyman His tale was
one of simplicity and heroism. He
had been chained to the wall OF the
room in which we were sitting Sew
eral drunken soldiers had entered and
hal dragged in behind them his wife
and five children. They built huge
Tire in the large chimney and therein
placed his entire family They were
burned to death. If they tried to get
out the soldiers used their bayonets.
Il have seen mothers so badly beat
en- that they viii never experience the
sacred JOY of motherhood. have
seen young men with every tooth in
heir jaws extracted, their eyes gouged
1ut with an iron and the hair on their
head singed off so that it would never
grow again. Little children were not
allowed to speak the Serbian Ian
9uage They were made to change
their names. Not sheet of paper
must be printed or written in their
native language, For three years the
children never tasted drop of milk.
Many do not know whether milk is
black or white They have no clothes;
they are running about naked. They
have no soap. Is ii wonder that
that part of Europe is threatened with
typhus? Is there child in any city
of America today who has not had
bit to eat for seven days and seven
nights? ! challenge you to take me
to one. Are not these little ones
more precious in the eyes of our Mas
ter than you or l? There are at pres
ent 100000 starving children in Serbia
and only funds enough to look after
60 600
rs there way to stop it, you will
ask me? Yes, there is such a way
if we are not too late. You say that
the safest investment In the world is a
Liberty bond. tell you that the safest
investment on this earth is chdd's
life have heard the voice. 1t is
cry in the wilderness to the American
people. VIII you think of it when
you lie in your comfortable soft bed
tonight? That is the way to stop it.
L know, for have seen it with my
own eyes"