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Show SERBIA WANTf" 11. 5 JEGIENT Moral Effect Upon Troops in Balkans Would Be Immense Declares Diplomat. PARIS, Sept. 2C (By the Associated Associat-ed Press.) "Had wc ono single regiment regi-ment of Americans in Macedonia battling bat-tling under the Stars and Stripes alongside the French and Serbians, the British and Italians, a prompt and comploto victory would bo assured." The Serbian minister to France, Dr. Vesnltcb, thus declared to the Associated Asso-ciated Press today and continued: "This does not mean that I doubt that the ultimate and final success will be .;ompletc; but the moral effect upon tho troops fighting in the Balkans would bc Immense if a few of your bravo boys were with them." Tho Serbian government will not remove to Mouastir for the present, the minister said. The work necessitated necessi-tated by tho removal of 'tho archives and documents of all sorts from Corfu to the mainland would have to bo re-noated'whon re-noated'whon fhr nlHnrf imnno .!,...,! other cities in old Serbia. Tho minister minis-ter would not specify but intimated that the Serbian government would not leavosCorfu until Uskub was solidly solid-ly occupied-by the allied troops. No Great German R-cerve3. Asked about tho probable effect of re-lnforccmcnt3 of German troops sent from Rumania under Field Marshal Mar-shal von Mackensen, the min.ster replied: re-plied: "The German troops in Rumania are old classes of ihe landstrum. I do not behove that von Mackensen has at his disposition any groat reserves, but merely has an army of occupation necessary ne-cessary to hold tho Rumanians down under tho mailed first. If re-inforce-ment3 are drawn from Rumania' the country will soon mako things uncomfortable uncom-fortable for the remaining garrisons and von Mackensen would have a hos-tile hos-tile population in his rear hampering communications." Dr. Vesnltch referred to von Mackensen Mack-ensen as unwilling to assume charge of tho armies of Ferdinand Von Mackenccn Will Not Come. "The Germans will probably come," ho said, "but they will not bo led by von Mackensen. Tho German field marshal, owing to his English extraction, extrac-tion, has always refused to meet British Brit-ish troops, and ho has already told tho kaiser so, when, tho latter last spring asked him to assumo charge of part of the operations on the western front. "Von Mackensen has made tho biggest big-gest reputation of any German general gener-al in this war. Having conducted his campaigns to a successful on tho eastern front, Rumania and Serbia, ho Is unwilling to risk defeat by leading Bulgarian soldiers." oo |
