The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . teen days the Serbs captured perhaps 40,000 prisoners(including 300 officers), besides cannon, machine-guns, gun-carriages, ammunition-wagons, portable ovens, transport-wagons, horses, and oxen. The Austrian killed and woundedwere placed at 60,000. At Koumanovo, Monastir, and theJadar two years before much had been done to establish 8 The New York Evening Sun. 90 AUSTRIA AND SERBIA the martial prestige of Serbia; but the victory of Suvoborstood as -an e
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . teen days the Serbs captured perhaps 40,000 prisoners(including 300 officers), besides cannon, machine-guns, gun-carriages, ammunition-wagons, portable ovens, transport-wagons, horses, and oxen. The Austrian killed and woundedwere placed at 60,000. At Koumanovo, Monastir, and theJadar two years before much had been done to establish 8 The New York Evening Sun. 90 AUSTRIA AND SERBIA the martial prestige of Serbia; but the victory of Suvoborstood as -an example of the manner in which an army, ill-equipped and without reserves, and notwithstanding absenceof material and the fatigue of unceasing work, with almostcertain defeat staring it in the face might secure victory outof a menacing and dangerous situation. The presence of theKing in the firing line, the strategy of the staff, the arrivalof gun-ammunition, and the leadership of General Mishitch,all contributed to the result. In normal times there is no poverty in Serbia, the dis-tribution of wealth being fairly equal. Most people have. LADY PAGETS HOSPITALAt Uskub, Serbia, at the time of the epidemic sufficient for all their meager requirements. But more thanhalf a million Serbians were now reduced to beggary, andtowns were choked with applicants seeking food and more disastrous was a devastating fever that set men who served in Serbia during that reign oftyphus described the country as for weeks a land of deathand misery. No man could smile, nor could a^ny womanhave an hour of happiness. The scourge originated in campsand probably cost more Serbian lives than all the crowding of prisoners had much restricted theirquarters and in winter they herded together more closelythan was strictly necessary. Owing to a multiplication of 91 OUTBREAK AND CAUSES vermin communication of the disease, once it had started,became inevitable, and from p
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