Died in Captivity
SERBIAN EX-PRIME MINISTER
Indirect information from Belgrade to Geneva announces the dwath in circumstances of the greatest misery of M. Youvan Avakumovitch, formerly chi' f of the Serbian -Liberal Party, several times Prime Minister and Secl'otarv of State for Foreign Affairs of vbH,
Owing to his grout ago—lie was 70 —M. Avakuniovitch did not leave Serbia at the time of the enemy invasion in 1915. He was dragged barefoot for 125 miles as far as Belgrade by Hungarian soldiers, with about thirty former Serbian dignitaries who like him had remained at the watering place of Vrnynntchga Banya, nnd was then sent a captive with them to Hungary. There he died at the internment camp fit Nezsider. His wife, who had remained in Serbia, died on the day when she heard of his tragic end.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 14 June 1917, Page 3
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