In the Balkans

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 19, 28 December 1915, Page 6

In the Balkans

MORE "AGONY” STORIES. SERBS’ PLIGHT AGAIN DESCRIBED. . [United Press Association.] (Received 12.40 p.m.) Rome, December 27. A terrible picture is painted in the despatches from Albania, showing that 150,000 Albanians died of starvation during the year. The position will be equally bad in 1916 unless superhuman efforts are made. Mr W. Howard, owner (if an American relief schooner, who is landing provisions, says there has been a complete failure of the crops. Two hundred thousand Serbians have just arrived foodless and penniless, in addition to thirty thousand Austrian prisoners. The distress is acute at Bera San Jak, where two hundred thousand are foodless and homeless. Numbers are starving to death daily. While unloading my food, I personally fed a thousand famished Serbs and also the Austrian prisoners, many of whom have not tasted bread for several weeks, and are on the verge of starvation. Numbers were so weak that they could not carry' the provisions.