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Show AWFULHARDSHSPS OF SERBIAN ARMY Men Crawl on All Fours Along Edges of Terrible Precipices and Sides of Peaks. HAD TO DESTROY GUNS Live Without Bread For Days Horrible Suffering From Cold and Hunger. Paris. Jan. 6, 10:40 p. m. Hardships encountered by the Serbian .army in its flight through the mountains of Albania, are described in a letter to the Temps sent from Scutarla on Dec. 11. "This is the sixth capital Serbia has had during two months," says the writer. "After Nish it was Kralieve, then Raska, Mitrovitza, Prlsrend and finally Scutari. "As a tourist I am acquainted with the Alps, the Carpathians and the Pyrenees, but I have never seen such goat paths 'for roads running along the edges of terrible precipices and the sides of peaks In the clouds. The officials of the Serbian government rode little mountain ponies, but often they had to abandon their mounts and go on foot. I' have seen their horses slip and fall into abysses. Sometimes one had to go on all fours. Some, to nvold vertigo, had to be guided with closed eyes. Snow a Yard Deep. "Then there was snow which caused fresh suffering. Roads were worn through the snow a yard deep. Albanian Al-banian guerrilas were taking pot shots at us from behind rocks high up or from opposite sides of the canfbnB. "The army could not bring its guns or convoys through such country. When we began to enter It we had to destroy automobiles, wagons, vehicles and every sort of gun. Officers and soldiers wept as they demolished the guns, those pieces of steel which they called their 'French friends' the ordnance ord-nance having been made at Creusot, The men had become attached to them and many artillerists served the same gun for years. Some officers refused to destroy their pieces, saying they preferred to use their last bit of strength in trying to save them; and some of them have succeeded and actually have brought their guns across. Many Soldiers larefoot. "After all these" suYferingsfrom cold, lninger and fatigue, many soldiers sold-iers being barefoot, we are here. "Altogether there have arrived by various routes G.000 women and children. chil-dren. The tragedy of the situation is that the army has almost nothing to eat. The soldiers had no bread for four days, but small quantities of flour were kept for the women and children " |