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Show KOSSQVO DAY WAS CELEBRATED 8Y SERBIANS The Serbians of the camp la'Ji Krl-I Krl-I day celebrated Kobeovo Day in commemoration com-memoration of the great battle fouglit i between the Serbians and the TurXa I on the plain of Kossovo (plain of the iBmtkbirds) on June 28,' 1389. It was one of the bloodiest battles in the history of the world and not only thousands of Serbians and Turks met their death In it, but also both the j Serbian Czar,Lazar and the Turkish I Sultan Murad were killed. It was a decisive blow to the Serbian nation. ' to the entire southeast of Europe and to Christendom, and the Turks advanced ad-vanced to the gates of Vienna, keep-j ing BubJtM?ated fcr centuries couth-eastern couth-eastern Europe. But notwithstanding the fact that the (Serbians were vanquished van-quished in this great battle and lost their liberty for many vears they hare ever since celebrated Kososvo Day because their valiant soldiers fought with such bravery on this occasion oc-casion as to greatly weaken the Mo-j Mo-j hammedans and cave the Christian : armies in other countries time to pre-, pre-, pare to meet and battle the fanatics who had decided to make their religion reli-gion supreme by the might of the sword. . The memory of .the battle Is deeply deep-ly rooted in the heart of the Serbian nation. From generation to generation genera-tion the tradition of the battle waa I handed down and the men who fought and died there for liberty. And Serbians Ser-bians in all parts of the world have an annual celebration on the 28th of ; June In honor of the men who prefer red a glorious death to a shameful life. Sicne then they have fought the Turk almost continuously until the Balkan war of 1912-13 when they completely com-pletely defeated their old enemy and gained lor 'themselves that long sought freedom and avenged the defeat de-feat at Kossovo. The Serbians were celebrating this great national day when the Austrian Crown Prince visited 9ara1evo, June 28, 1S14. And a Serbian writer in the New York Times points out that this visit in itself to a province populated by Serbians which had recently been J annexed by Austria waa a provocation provoca-tion for the assassination which is , accredited as the cause of the war. I The Serbians met In Phoenix last, Friday to celebrate that day. And , they not only talked over the struggles strug-gles of the past and their trials and i tribulations, but added something of value to the occasion by taking stepn to further assist ip the winning . of the war. Their enthusiasm was high I and 43 men at the time came forward to go to the army. This number was later increased to 54. So that number num-ber of Serbians will leave here next week for Europe to fight or ' their liberty as their ancestors have done for centuries. In view of the. laree number of recrulU to leave next woek Joe Melich has secured a special car I to take them to Chicago from where they will be dispatched tc, the battle ' front. And besides getting this number of recruits they also raised some money for the Serbian Red Cross, the Ser-blan Ser-blan National dfonse and for tbe Ser-' Ser-' blan National War mission. The amount raised on this occaiion was $700. And they are not through with ( It yot, but will raise more. A Red , Cross committee wa.i appointed to solicit so-licit funds and carry on the work. 1 Tha committee is composed of Joe I ; 'Mellch, Phillip Ziglch, Pete Sudako-: Sudako-: vich. Mile Bogdanovich. Bogo Uzlac, Nick Vovkovich, Vujo Borich and Bo-zo Bo-zo fMelfkich. This committee has Ibeen promised assistance by Mavor jQ. B. Kelley, J. E. Zwicky and J. W. I Brlnghurst, The Serbians are full of the patriotic patr-iotic spirit and they have done .nd jare doinir a great work towards helping help-ing to win the war. Out of their rosl-' rosl-' dents here they have already sent to the army 102 soldiers and next week they send 54 more which win make 156 in all. With this last lint they are sending practically every available avail-able man for the army with the exception ex-ception of those who have dependents. depend-ents. They will have a meeting In Phoenix, Phoe-nix, Sunday, designated especially for the 54 new recruits who are to leave next Tuesday for the war. |