Show fifty Serbians Are Drowned Under Church I Red Cross Investigator Tells of Horrible Discovery By Col H Homer orner Folks American Red Cross Investigator Assigned by Newspaper Enterprise Association Association As- As to Write of Conditions in inthe inthe the Balkans LESKOV ATZ Serbia March March In S.-In there Is a a. church Under the church Is a well In the well the bodies of fifty citizens citizens citi- citi zens of were found found- drowned I Their arms and legs had been tied and they had been thrown Into the water by the Bulgarians when they swept over Serbia a citizen of the town of told me He also said that a good many of the leading citizens of priests school teachers and such had been deported deported-as those left lert behind un- un into BUlgaria But that lust just lately they had been finding In the foothills ot of the mountains over which the ro road d went graves in which thirty forty and fifty of these citizens had been buried after having been tortured and killed In before the war stood one of the few large factories In Ser Ser- bia It had been making woolen cloth for army uniforms and also linen cloth The buildings had been filled with expensive machinery imported from Austria and Germany German When the Bulgarians came they put up the machinery at auction to enterprising enterprising enter enter- citizens of Bulgaria and many ot of the machines carry tags or are marked chalk with the names ot of the successful bidders bidder They had not been able to transport all of the machines before the Serbians came back though a great many had been moved but all those which could not be removed had been cleverly damaged damaged dam dam- aged almost beyond possibility of re- re pair All the engines all the various machines machines ma- ma chines for the manifold operations required required re- re In the manufacture of cloths had been damaged at some vital spot All the leather belts and even the leather attached to rollers had been cut away The boilers had been made us use use- i less I It Is an open question whether the machines can be repaired and If repair were possible as to whether it would not cost more than to take a fresh start The owner one of the few capitalists of Serbia seemed to take an almost melancholy satisfaction In having us see how his life work had been de- de He seemed too old too broken brok- brok en and too discouraged to take a fresh start |