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Show Awfui Hardships of Serbian Army Men Crawl on Hands and Knees Along Edges of Terrible Precipices Precip-ices and Sides of Paks ParlB, Jan. C Hardships encountered encoun-tered by tho Serbian army In Its flight through tho nitfuntnlns of A-banln, A-banln, are described In a letter to tho Templo sent from Scutnrla on December 11. "This Is tho sixth capital Serbia has had during two months," says tho writer. "After Nish It was Krallevo. Then Raska, Mltrovltza, Prltend and tlnnlly Scutari. "As a tourist 'i am acquainted with tho Alps tho Carpathians and the Pyrenees, but I havo never Been such goat paths for roads running on tho edges of terrible precipices and tho Bides of peaks In tho clouds. The olllcla s of tho Serbian go eminent rodo llttlo mountain ponies, but often they had to abandon their mounts nnd go on foot. I havo Been their horses slfp and fall into abysses. Sometimes one had to go on all fours. Some, to avoid vertigo, had to bo guided with closed eyes. Snow Was a Yard Deep "Then thero was snow which caus ed fresh suffering. Roads wero worn through tho snow a yard deep. Albanian Al-banian guerrllns wero tnklng pot shots at us from behind rocks high up or from opposlto sides of the canyons. "The army could not bring Us guns or convoys through such country. When we began to enter It we had to destroy automobiles, wagons, vo hides and every sort of gun. Olllc ers nnd soldiers went ns thoy dcniol Ished the guns, those pieces of steel which they cal ed their French friends, tho ordinance having been made at Creusot. Tho men hnd be como attached to them nnd many artillerists served tho same gun foi yc,nrs. .Somo officers refused to de stroy their pieces, saying they prefer red to use their last bit of strength in trying to snvo them; ami somo of them have succeeded and actual!) havo brought their guns ncross. Many Soldiers Barefooted "After n'l theso Bufferings from cold,- hunger and fatigue, many boI dlers being barefoot, wo nro hero "Altogether there have arrived b various routes, 1,000 women and chll dron. Tho trngedy of the situation Is that tho army has almost nothing to eat. Tho soldiers had no bread Tor four days, but small quantities of flour wero kept for tho women nnd children." |
