THE TRAIL OF DEATH

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2631, 29 November 1915, Page 5

THE TRAIL OF DEATH

FROM NISH TO MONASTIR

GRAPHIC PICTURES PROM SERBIA By Mwrrauli—Press Association—Ckwyrlelit New York, November 26. _ Mr. Shepherd, the correspondent for the United Press Agency, sends graphic pictures from Monastir of the miseries of the' Serbian refugees. Be describes the road from Nisli ' ;to Monastir as

worse _ than tlie 'Klondike' trail, 'and / gives instances of privation, exhaustion, and death. . _; A' Government party had a terrible journey of twenty day's on'horseback. Pbe party : included tie American wife s ■ ' of a Serbian official,; who said": "There , are three millions of starving.people in Serbia. Horses are starving and thousands of dogs left behind- owing to the lack, of food are scouring the hills in famished packs, in pursuit' of. game: The roadside from ( Nish to Monastir is a continuous horror, dead horses are in-' terspersed with ;.the corpses of starved ' and exhausted fugitives, men, women, and children. : Our: hdrses were starving, and 6ome fell from exhaustion und died where-they. fell. "Our party.'was the best equipped' of all on that: trail of death' vet-all we had to eat was half a loaf of bread each' daily. Most of the refugees were foodless for days. Many struggled to the villages hopefully expecting bread,-.but found nothing and lay down and died, being unablo to, prolong the cruel .struggle. ; • "One niglit I heard screams.; ' They .were those of a man avlio was being murdered by : hungor-maddened'men for his half-loaf of bread. "What is happening in Serbia will make the blackest . page in history. 'When M. Michotte, the Belgian Minister, oifergd his servants money thev burst into tears appealing for broad." 1 , . Mi\ Shepherd appeals to. Americans r for aid for the refugees, and adds: hourly arrive in Monastir delirious with joy, but even there food is terribly scarce and fuel exhausted."