Second Edition. THE TRAIL OF DEATH.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14774, 30 November 1915, Page 7

Second Edition. THE TRAIL OF DEATH.

HORRORS OF THE SERVIAN FLIGHT. ROAD LINED IVITII DU AD AND DYING. j / By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received November 3D, 2.3U p.m. ’ LONDON. November 29. Mr Shepherd, the correspondent of the American Press Agency, writing from Salonika, states;—Tlie horrors of the flight of the hapless Servian people are growing with the arrival of each contingent. The refugees state that 00 miles of the road from Prizrend to Monastic are lined with human corpses and the carcases of horses and mules. Thousands of old men, women, and children. are lying among the rocks, and in the thickets beside the trail, exhausted and foodies*, awaiting the end. Hordes of Servians, Albanians, and 50,000 Austrian prisoners are moving through the desolate country. In some places, like vultures, they have snippet! the flesh from dead animals to api>ease their hunger. Women and children, ill-clad and numbed with cold, cower pitifully about the meagre fires in the mountain shrub throughout the night, and resume their weary march to Monastic in the morning. When Monastic is captured they will be at the mercy of the inhospitable mountain passes. Among the refugees who have reached Salonika are Dr. Findlay; and his wife. Ijtidv Sybil Findlay, daughter of the seventh Earl of Kingston, who, with eight English doctors and sixteen English nurses, trudged on foot for seven da vs in the Albanian mountains with only a little bread to eat. Fifteen out of twenty of their pack mules died from hunger. The Britishers in Greece are making heroic efforts to alleviate the distress. Twenty motor-cars loaded with thuir are fighting their wav through the blizzard towards Dibra. Tl.c remnants of the Servian Army are retreating to Elbassan, 30 miles '•milh-east "1 Dtirazzo.

ALLIED TROOPS AT SALONIKA.

I 125.000 ALREADY LANDED. '.l-5 V \ 45,000 ARRIVING. t ■ a; Received Noaomber 30, 2,13 p.m. PARIS. November 29Athens cables state that 123,00(1 Fraiico-British troops have landed at Salonika and are abundantlv supplied a ith munitions, etc. Forty-live thousand additional troops are en route, and 4000 an 1 landing daily. OTHER LANDING PORTS. Received Xovemiter 30. 2.13 a.in. ROME, November 29. The newspaper Corriorc Della Sera states that Lord Kitchener obtained Greece's consent for the Allied troops to land at ports other than .Salonika.