LATEST WAR NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 283, 30 November 1915, Page 8

LATEST WAR NEWS.

THE HAPLESS SERBIANS

HORRORS OF THE FLIGHT

ROAD LINED WITH CORPSES

A HORRIBLE PICTURE,

[Press Association... 1 (Received Nov. 30, 1.20 pan.) ,-. LONDbN, Nov. 29. Mr Shepherd, writing from Salonika, states that the horrors of tho flight of the hapless Serbian people are growing with .the arrival of each contingent; Refugees states that for : 90 miles tho road from Prizrend to Monastir is lined with human corpses, and carcases of Horses and .mules. Thousands of old men., women, and -children, are.flying on the rocks and in the thic¥efe|>esido thetrail, exhausted anC3c«>sdless,'■■•^Siting the end. '■ ■-■ l^m ■ - :-;-iV Hordes of S#iiiaii&, .Albanians, and

50,000 Austrian prisoners are moving through the desolate country in some places like vultures. They strip the flesh oi dead animal? to appease their hunger. Women and children, illclad and numbed with cold, cower pitifully about meagre fires of mountain, scrub throughout, the night, and resume their weary march to Monastir in the morning. When Monastir is captured they will be at the mercy of the inhospitable inoun- .' tain passes. Among the refugees who reached Salonika" was Dr. Findlay and his wife, *:Lady Sjbil Findlay, daughter of the seventh Earl of Kingston, who, with eight English doctors and sixteen English nurses, trudged on foot for seven days in the Albanian mountains. They had only a little bi'ead. Fifteen of rtheir twenty pack mules' 'died from ■'-.- ':.•'•"'■ •-■ - .-,...vV -.' ~. ~ •■. vThe British in Greece are making heroic efforts to alleviate the distress. .''l'wenty Joaded with" flour • are lighting their ,1 way through a blizzard towards Dibra.

The remains of the Serbian army are, retreating to El Bassan, 36 mile's -south-east of Durazzo.