SERBIAN CHIVALRY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2757, 28 April 1916, Page 3

SERBIAN CHIVALRY

The abject horrors of the flight of the Serbians have just been graphically tiescribed by Henry Haller, formerly of the Fifth United States Cavalry, -who was one of the few - Americans in that pitiable episode, and he declares that during the journey to Podgoritza, in Montenegro, in a four days' snowstorm, more than 50,000 men died. "Thoy died so fast," he said (writes a London correspondent), "that they 1 fell every few yards all along the road. The wagons and the carts went right over their bodies. Nobody thought of I trying to turn out of the way, and thero were so many they could not, but drivo ov.er them. "The food problem was terrific, even in Albania. A half-pound of broad wis sold at ten dinars (about eight shillings). As I-had a little money at Sturza, I bought five pounds of okabeans. Had I not been able to get 'f-i beans, 1 would to-day : bo a dead man. I had just said to myself, 'I can't go any further,-' when I persuaded a peasant woman to sell me the beans. I ate beans twico a day, making a sort of soup out of them, putting in a little salt. At that I was luckier much more than the fellows who had to boil harness leather for five or six hours in order to make the hot water taste like soup. I saw men act like savages, eating nieces of brown paper. "There were,- perhaps, not more than two thousand women among: the . rotrentine; horde with us, and it is a foot worth recording that they were kindly treated and, given whatever comforts were, available. by soldiers who were otherwise dead to every feeling . I havo seen such men, gaunt, stagserinsr along, half-naked, with a, few pieces -if cloth for shoes, unable to speak, with barely strength left to stop near a dying howe and out a stringy steak from its flank, straighten up for a moment near one of the women's carts and'smilingly tonder their last mouthful of food to some of the women. "I hare seen, time and time again, some freezing soldier take off his overcoat and force it upon some one or these women, and seem almost ashamed to look upon her shivering body as lie made, the offer. Then he .would search along the road "intil In was able to strip sonic dead man of his clothes to replace, that which ho had so freely given." ■"..-.■ Mr. Meacheam, of Maharahara, has received the news of the marriage of his brother, Private W. H. Meacheam, at St. Luke's Church, Battersea Rise, England, on March 8. ~ Nurse Ethel Barnes, who has seen a great deal of active service in Egypt, and who was invalided home; is staying with Miss Arcus,.of Dalefield. The latest and the mode of these everohanging times—Parisian. 8100m 1 (Fraicheur, Paris, Reg.), as distributed by Miss Milsom, sole agent. This beautiful hygienio and novel preparation gives a natural bloom and healthy, fresh appearance to the complexion. Used by the'best and made of the best. Price 3s. Gd. -box. Sole Proprietors ■ all "Cultene" skin preparations—the Skin Food 35., the Balm 3s. 6d. Write for hair preparations, complete outfits for dry, greasy, frey and faded hair. All hairwork. Perfect match and texture guaranteed. Mis Milsom, 9-1 Willis Street (4 doors past'"Evening Post"), Telephone 814-Advt.

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