MISERY IN SERBIA
WOEFUL PICTURE OF WAR'S DESOLATION. B.v Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright, ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, June 14. The "Times" correspondent at Buchar-r est states that escapc<l Serbian and Russian prisoners declare that there is in. describable misery in Serbia. The Ans-tro-Germans seized'the stores and crops, and are shooting peasants for concealing food. There has been wholesale plundering, the principal residences in Belgrade being completely cleared o£ furniture and valuables. 'Looting'is expressly permitted by an order of the da;r i6sued by General von Mackensen. Mill-
tary motor-cars have been seen proceeding to houses and Tieing filled with plunder. . Tho people in the country are starving and are eating grass and berries, frequently dyini» from the effects. A former Prefect of Belgrade has been compelled to sweep the streets.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2798, 16 June 1916, Page 5
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129MISERY IN SERBIA Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2798, 16 June 1916, Page 5
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