SERVIA'S VALLEY OF THE DEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 5

SERVIA'S VALLEY OF THE DEAD.

URGENT APPEAL FOR HELP IN THE HOSPITALS. «£ overworked! doctors succumb to disease. WAR PRISONERS DYING FROM STARVATION. , LONDON, March 19. Captain Bennett, Red Cross Commissioner in Seryia, has issued an. urgent appeal for help. He describes Uskub as a valley of the dead, and-states that there is horrible overcrowding in the hospitals. Six doctors and • twelve' orderlies, without the assistance of nurses, hare attempted to attend to 1,800 sick and wounded men. Half the doctors and orderlies have since died or have been themselves stricken down with disease. The patients are dying from sepsis because their wounds have not been dressed. Captain Bennett declares that of doctors' and fever nurses are wanted. ' H The Servians are doing their best for their, prisoners, but out of in one camp only 20 were able to stand, and 60 are dying every day, and there is ' nobody to remove the dead. When a stranger enters, the silence of the camp is broken by moans, "For the love of God give mc water," or' Tor God's sake, bread." - . .-.-.