Servia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1915, Page 6

Servia.

BpAVE FIJDHT,FOR LIBERTY.

; United Press Association. • ■ ,New York • Feb. nary 6. ,-M. Pashitch, in resoouse to the rcof the American P: ess, has issued a statement, i,He says: “I)e----ajjite the fact that an AustrorGerman army of ,four hundred thousand is y ’massing on’ our northern frontier for tth)o;i third invasion in a brief six !■ am 1 happy to .inform the American people of the Servians’ true position in this terrible struggle, .which was forced upon her._ * is, .fighting for political moral, industrial, . arpp commercial-.liberty. At the conclusion of the second Balkan war Sorvijavwas freed,from the Ottoman yoke, 'after five centuries of Turkish domina. tipn. acid, constant ?.warfare. If .ever a, country'.needed, a desired peace it was Servia.’ then Austria realised that. Servian 'development musthe checked, because that, development meant- djttipiately a strong and independent halion, which would he an insurmountable’ barrier to , the Austrian dreams of Balkan -dominion. Austria declared war with the . sole object of ending,for ,ever our imlopcn- * denit .rational .existence. Austrtia was convinced that, Russia was unprepared, and that. Germany, anyway, was strong, enough to defeat Russia. If 1 other nations ofier to help us we wifc'AMept!graWf»Uy,. but we do not ask anyone. If ’the Austro-Gennans crush Servia, they will hot stop there but will junction with the Turks'.and constitute a new menace. Austrian, atnjpifcies Ijave'no precedent in ;preseht or past ways, and indicate a.' ,re- ' turn >,tn barbarism, the result of Tep-, tonic domination. I feel that 4»',©,»TO entitled.’to the sympathy and moral support of all .|air : rninded nations.”