ON THE TRAIL OF DEATH

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2632, 1 December 1915, Page 5

ON THE TRAIL OF DEATH

PLIGHT Or THE SERBIAN PEOPLE By Telegraph—Prcs« Association—OopyrlgM London, November 29. Mr. Shepherd, the correspondent at Salonika for the United Press Agency, says: "The horrors of the flight of the hapless Serbian people are growing with the arrival of each contingent of refugees. They state that the ninety miles of road from Prizrend to Monastir are lined with human corpses and the car-' cases of horses and mules; that thousands of old men, women, and children are lying among the rocks and thickets beside the trail, exhausted and foodless, awaiting the end. "Hordes of Serbians and Albanians, and fifty thousand Austriaii prisoners are moving through desolate country. In some places, like vultures, they stripped tho flesh of dead; animaJs to appease their hunger. Women and children, illclad and numbed with t'he_ cold, cower pitifully about meagre fires in the mountain shrub throughout the night, and resume their weary march to Monastir in the morning. 'Among the refugees who have reached Salonika are Dr. Ficdlay and his wife, Lady Sybil Fifedl'ay, daughter of tho seventh Earl of Kingston, who, with eight English doctors and sixteen English nurses, all trudged cn foot for seven days among the 'Albanian mountains, their ouly food being a little broad. Fifteen of their twenty pack mules died of hunger. "British residents in Greece are making heroic efforts to alleviate the distress. Twenty motor-cars loaded with flour are fighting their way through a blizzard towards Dibra."

DESPAIRS OF HIS COUNTRY. SERBIAN NOVELIST KILLS HIMSELF. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. November 30, 5.10 p.m.) London, November 29. . ■ The Serbian novelist. Mylan Askokovick, has committed suicide. He left a, letter saying:' "I am unable to survive Serbia's death. Her fate is too unjust j. she deserves a better lot." ' SERBIA'S HEROIC KING SWORD IN HAND AT THE. FIRING ' LINE. ("Times'' and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. November 30, 5.10 p.m.) London, November 29. The newspaper "II Secolo" reports that King Peter of Serbia was present at the battle of Pirot. He advanced, sword in hand, to the firing line, ana urged the soldiers on. At the end of the day he was exhausted and fainted.