"SEND BREAD, OR WE DIE"
AWFUL SITUATION IN SERBIA
POPULATION FEARFULLY REDUCED
(Kec. September 21, $.50 p.m.) London, September 20. Agouising details liave been, received of the situation of the Seroian population. Normally it was 3,170,(i00, now it is 2.218,COO. The reduction of the male populatiou is 38 per cent., including practically all males from 13 ■to 60 years of age. Thirty thousand Serbian women dud children and boys, from the Nish district, have been deported and interned in Asia Jliuor, wliere SOOO havo been delivered to Turks. A great number of women preferred, suicide, throwing themselves out of the trains going to Asia Minor. Those left in Serbia are continually writinjj to friends: "Send us bread or we shall die." At the present time only i:6003 is lieing spent monthly in Serbhn relief, though 2,000,000 sufferers! an:l 60,000 families are without any means of living.—Renter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3197, 22 September 1917, Page 7
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146"SEND BREAD, OR WE DIE" Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3197, 22 September 1917, Page 7
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