Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-19 | Page 6 | Servia Facing Serious Problem

SERVIA FACING SERIOUS PROBLEM London, Jan. 10. (Correspondence of the Associated Press) The care of prisoners taken in battle lies become be-come one of the most serious problems prob-lems of the war in Servla, which al readj has its hands full feeding and providing for its own people. A Ser i vlan captain writes to one of the staff of the legation: "One can have too much of a good thing. We begin to understand why saages take no prisoners But we' , are not savages and must feed and i roof all these hostile visitors until the war is over, it is beccming a , tremendous task on our resources ' Some of tbe Slav prisoners and most of our prisoners are Slavs are not ill disposed toward Servia and a few of these we trust with the less important work of the camp and battlefield. bat-tlefield. One of my corporals who hurried across from an Austrian border bor-der town as a volunteer at the beginning begin-ning of the war, came hauling an Austrian dragoon before me today, his face wreathed in smiles "Thi3 is my own brother, captain,' he said T told him before left that he would be pressed into the Austrian army if j he remained and sure enough, here j he is" "The dragoon was so evidently friendly that I did not send him back to Nish with the other prisoners, but gave him in charge of his brother. ' rwi