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Show BRITISH ARE HELPING SERBIANS ON DANUBE Officers Help Natives to Outwit and Beat Austrians Along Historic His-toric River. Special Cable to The Tribune. LIVERPOOL. England, Aug. 7. The story of the work which British military and naval men have been doinfe in Serbia, mention of which has heretofore been prohibited by the British censors, was told for the first time in a lecture given here this week by Dr. Crawford Price. "I am now at liberty to mention the fact that British troops are fighting side ! bv side with the Serbians." said Dr. i Price. "When it became necessary to put an end to the Austrian monitors on the Danube the material at the service of the Serbians was primitive. The British Brit-ish government having given its consent, a British officer arrived on the scene. He was. In fact, the greatest secret that ever stalked through Serbia. In a few . weeks' time he had the Austrian monitors moni-tors bottled up. "When the Serbians returned to Bel- ?rade after the evacuation another de-achment de-achment of British troops arrived with them. A few days later the Serbians made an attack upon one of the islands in the Danube. The Austrians suddenly Raw in the dark a huge, heavily-armored craft bristling with cannon bearing bear-ing down upon them, and they promptly prompt-ly evacuated the island. "They could not Imagine the origin of this river dreadnought, which, as a matter of fact, had been carefully constructed con-structed by the British, and which had formerly been a barge, but was now covered with painted tin plates and had two machine guns mounted behind the bows. Another boat, little higger than ft. ferry boat, was rigged out later and gained the name of the Terror of the Danube. It was fitted with torpedoes and v. 1th It Lieutenant Kerr accounted for one of the Austrian monitors." |