Secrets of the Balkans . umanianarmy and compel its surrender. He was the son-in-lawof Mr. Peter Carp, and under the administration ap-pointed by the Germans he was allowed to escape toGermany. During the war, many American colored men passedthiough the Balkan states, traveling from one countryto another and giving entertainments. Groups of fromfour to ten came to the Legation in Bucharest and askedme to help them to get to Russia, where they could earnmore money. Being so many of them, I required thatall should demonstrate to me what kind of entertainmentthey could provide. In one case, two o
Secrets of the Balkans . umanianarmy and compel its surrender. He was the son-in-lawof Mr. Peter Carp, and under the administration ap-pointed by the Germans he was allowed to escape toGermany. During the war, many American colored men passedthiough the Balkan states, traveling from one countryto another and giving entertainments. Groups of fromfour to ten came to the Legation in Bucharest and askedme to help them to get to Russia, where they could earnmore money. Being so many of them, I required thatall should demonstrate to me what kind of entertainmentthey could provide. In one case, two of them who werestanding close to me when the question was asked,made a lightning change, and within a minute theyappeared as camels. Another set, who were v/aitingfor passports, I asked to sing, and they rendered **MyOld Kentucky Home so well that I not only grantedthem permission to go, but advanced money for theirexpenses as well. I made a number of similar loans,but, unfortunately for me, not one has ever been Monuments on Tombs op Serbian Soldiers BlHfcr- ^ ^HB .1 ^^^J Monuments to Serbian Soldiers Who Fell on theBattlefield, Erected in their Xillages CHAPTER XIII AN AMERICAN REPORTERS VIEWS —THE AMERICANLEGATION OUSTED THE Germans, during the occupation of Walachia,made themselves fully at home there. They printedand put into circulation 2,200,000,000 lei, Roumaniancurrency, and thereby created an indebtedness for Rou-mania, which they had no right to do. With this moneythey paid the different bills of their government. When the Germans took possession of Bucharest,their troops brought with them the German peopleinterned in different places in Roumania, whom theRoumanians could not take along to Moldavia, alsomany German refugees from Transylvania, and thenthey established public kitchens for them. In theseplaces they served good food, especially pork and beans. On the other hand, the poor Roumanian women,wives of the soldiers who were with the Roumanian armyin
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