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Show SUFFERING QF SERBIAN FORCE London, Nov. 3, 5:07 p. m A story of the Serbian tragedy, received from Nish by way of Milan, from the pen of Luciano Magrini, an Italian war correspondent is printed by the Evening Eve-ning News. The writer characterized the clearance of northern Serbia as "the retreat of a people, not an army' In his account of the retreat the correspondent describes the scene on a muddy road, leading to the south, over which was strung an unending procession of gun carrlagps, carts loaded with war material, conveyances convey-ances of all sorts bearing women, children, old men, the sick and .the wounded1, with, at intervals, flocks of sbeep and droves of pigs and of soldiers sol-diers walking side by side with peasants. peas-ants. At the side of tho road stood groups of peasants waiting until they were able to take their places in the procession. "The great stream is flowing flow-ing southward," the writer said, "whither nobody knows." The wounded were a pitiable sight. Some, swathed in bandages, were carried car-ried on stretchers, while others, also bandaged, were walking because no stretchers were available for them, Still others who had been wounded, but whose hurts had not even been i bandaged, trod the road with the procession pro-cession At Topola, King Peter, ill and wealc, 'was waiting to retire with the rearguard' rear-guard' of his troops. Arriving at Nish, the correspondent found the city bearing bear-ing a squalid aspect Almost all the shops were closed and many of the inhabitants had fled. On tho main street were still flying the flags which had been hoisted in Honor of the allies al-lies who hnd been expected, but who had novcr come. The price demanded for carriages for transporting refugees was onor-mous, onor-mous, JO pounds being asked for the hire oa carriage for two to Pnstina. "Nish is isolated," continues the correspondent. cor-respondent. "M. -Youvanovich, the Serbian minister of justice, said to me: 'Wo lived through the tragic hour when Bulgaria mobilized, ln vain wo besought the entente to allow us to act and attack Bulgaria before her mobilization was complete. The entente en-tente was still under the delusion that Bulgaria would march against Turkey. Tur-key. Wo obeyed, and that was our ruin. Tho situation now is terrible. If tho allied troops do not come in time, you will on your return find Serbia no more. The fate of Belgium Bel-gium will have been ours.' " |