Secrets of the Balkans . o send severaltrains of food and provisions to Turkey for the relief ofthe civic population in Constantinople. Of course, halfof these trains will be loaded with ammunition secretly,but you do not need to have any personal knowledge ofthat. You can accept this offer, and it v/ill appear thatyou are doing a great good by sending relief to reason why you are selected is because no otherminister could obtain the permission from the Roumaniangovernment but you. I told him that I thanked him for his interest inme, but not to think for a moment that I would bea pa
Secrets of the Balkans . o send severaltrains of food and provisions to Turkey for the relief ofthe civic population in Constantinople. Of course, halfof these trains will be loaded with ammunition secretly,but you do not need to have any personal knowledge ofthat. You can accept this offer, and it v/ill appear thatyou are doing a great good by sending relief to reason why you are selected is because no otherminister could obtain the permission from the Roumaniangovernment but you. I told him that I thanked him for his interest inme, but not to think for a moment that I would bea party to any such arrangement. My country wasneutral, and I could not under any circumstances aidany party at war. I requested him to make no moresuch offers, as it would compel me to sever my friendlyrelations with him. He could not understand my refusal to avail myselfof this opportunity for personal profit, and said I was thebiggest fool he ever knew, but he clearly understood therewas to be no further discussion of Scene near Valjevo, Serbia, Ai-Tiik the Battle BETWEEN AUSTRO-HUNGARIANS AND SERBIANS «^ WUP-tr- .- „^ H m ^m t 1^ |H ^1 K ^M :?/?? IT ^B^ ^H HH Hp ^k ^ i p. ^^1 ^^H Hffl l ? ^ -wapi I^^H H ^rsFj^ ^mk *-\ 4|jBi j^^^^^^^Hi H ^^^^^^_ V^^^^H^^^ m ntoi « dH HI Graves of Si:khiax Soldiers between Kralji:vo andCacak in Serbia o CHAPTER VI CONDITION OF PRISONERS OF WAR IN SERBIA N the 15th of June I arrived at Nish, with ColonelSola and Captain Billand, as members of the Inter-national Commission to investigate conditions affectingprisoners of war in Serbia. On the 17th, it was arrangedby the Foreign Office that the commission should beplaced in the charge of the war department, under thedirection of Lieutenant-Colonel Schapinac, who owing toillness was later succeeded by Commander Gaintch andDr. Lebel Korovic from the Ministry of Foreign this time the Serbian government stated that therewere 33,000 prisoners of war in Serbia, not including somethousan
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