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Show BELGRADE 15 GIN : SHABBYTREATMENT I Correspondent Has No Kindly Feeling for Perpe-I Perpe-I trators of Trick REPRISAL BY SHELLS Serbians Accord to Aus trians Some of Their Own Projectile Medicine. By ASTHUK V LEECH 5clal Cable to The Tribune BELGRADE, prll 10 Belgrade anil itmlln face one ano her where the rl or t joins the Danube, hen I firs raw them In da ins s MWht, In tha i unce th looked pleasan enough Ites. Less than twentj four hours after my arrival here, feemlln pa 1 a shabby trl k upon Belgrade and 1 a e no kind y feellns for the people w o perpetrat Tha two cities are some two and a half nDes apart and there is no reason h i-war being what t Is In six months of time conflict be ween berbla s and us trians and oern ans both to ns sho d bU have -been -aaed to the ground b sheQ fire. Belgrade has suffered cons d erably 1 was allowed to make a c ore acquaintance with It, and the first ra rression I ot was of visiting a cltj of the dead. The streets ha e been torn up 'by high explosive shells. Magnificent buildings have been wrecked by explosives thrown n by the Austrlans at odd mo men s. The uni erity the royal palace, ifcops, house, publ c buildings, factories -fev faa e been completely spared and lie wind whistles through the rents in fca walls, and g ass and brick and n a wary fall as one walks throDgh he treats Shell Holes Abound iBy night the stree s are unlighted and oly occasionally did I catch a candle gleam coming from one of the few re saining oocup ed house. Across the iver Semi n shows a few lights by night. kDuring m first night in Be grade guns boomed all around like distant thunder After da k I rambled through the b ack streets, tumbling nto shell holes and erer heaps of earth and stones, broken jtass and b is of masonry and became entang ed in broken telegraph and te e j one wire I went into a cafe where a fev c-f the Inhabitan s bad gathered firqimd a glimmering light The were if-id to see tsitors from Kng and and ViL.e the light G ckered and guns boomed he talked of the Austrian occu Vpa-An of the own for thirteen iays un Afccynuinberl and the great seven da 9ba lie, In December in which the Ser Ablas army routed the Austrlans and cap-Stared cap-Stared thousands of prisoners Officers Shoot Men Hone old man held as hostage daring the occupation told me that during the great 4eracuation he saw Austrian off cers snoot wteg at their own men in o der to get firt p ace on the pontoon bridges whld rere the on y wav back o Austrian te Ti orv During the thirteen days occu 3 patron a programme of gh seeing was tarried out by the Austrian ladles from a Budapest and Vienna. They came in their 1 uotor cars and crossed the pontoons into " BeSr-ada. When the day of the route ' euoe some of these sightseeing ladies were left behind. As he guests of t e M Tfoveminent, we were allowed to go over the ruined royal palace. During the oc enpation tt was tenanted by Austrian of .Beers, and earl in the proceedings ev errthmg of value was packed up and re nwved to Austria. But the officer in charge of the removal business would ap Pear to have a sense of humor Afte a clean sweep he chalked upon the main entrance of the palace a notice In Ger r man that tha entrance w as forbidden and I Hat the keys were with Lieutenant Co i et Schwarz. Big Picture Saved ! Schwarz aa the removal contractor of I toe Austrian army was a most efficient n Peron. Practically all the rooms have .been sacked or wrecked by shells. The t crown prince s apartments w ere burnt Jt, and with a single exception all the PCtures of value were taken. The only e lef t is Murats painting of the coro nation of the Serbian czar Doushan a SfW piece of work after the modern . oiav school, wh b must have been too jj) ftsa for the Austrian vans zj' was whl e we were at he pa ace with cP0,.8 Paul one of the king's sons that liiv Pened Are upon Belgrade We '7 !S r,,016 000111 t the distant gun the Sr"8 01 018 she11 and then a mighty it exp oded In onr vicinity That 1 m, M am ,hot a we 1 directed one 51 J11 Tbey fo owed n scores and Mdreds amj we ouna it ad -isable to So elsewhere TjKe drove Into the streets a she 1 u behind us tearing up the roadway creating a smother of dust and brick . hTj Prtnce Paul left us and ran down e street to where some peop e had been sjj.'wl and Injured A. hundred yards fur "onB h wde street that had once 0 !fn " pride of Be grade another she IS .i? a tremendous explos on into fin4dle of a house wrecking it and BJJg a woman 1ns de Bombardment Returned The Anstrians had opened their bom rtment at io precise 3 At 3 to 'Ma there was no doubt that the Aus "'ant to raze Be g ade our f ret son barked and It was f om the citadel J E!t we were Btand "S The she SvS . " been beaut My p aced for a Srti.oftsmoke ani d"t rose from he "ogQbo hood of the Hunjadl tower wh ch ' tVw! a dmark in Sem n town The m guns now barked Incessant y and SKV, "Uttered what Be grade had en rtlfc ,Ijr an hour w thout P o est a ter bhh eoncentrated bombardment with SIS eP os ves ibat nigh at the cafe of the Grand men Tagaln. met some of the towns ibShSL Besrade but two of them were SSL ?e fad been W ed n the to tH?aJ.entL Anothe sent a message o oS i 5 bouse had been wrecked by Jr feet ns he cou d not me t0 ahJ e.rt m.ornlneT we k ew hat Sem ltthn?t "o'eiJoyed Its we I merited pun iWch . "om across he Save a motor V1ne pproached Be grade She was , 111 Pan m v rge whlte faS V.3S accom 'A' .mi bm,,Lai aeroplane and a monitor Poy wh8h i? Be 8-ad an Austrian en "anaTr f .?hed 10 8Deak vi h the com 'B en fthe t?wn He brought a type lent ?nP'Ler 8ett "S out a form of as,ree nti k. . future conduct of bon bard t tat ik.J onel Toufegd tch comman fSi " wuL dfenf of Be grade sent h m teon ? Jea.c,led a e hat hund ds . lSat7jnt-had b,19n k ed n Sem n and jfiy '"onnous destruction had been done |