GERMANS MAKE
MUCH HEADWAY
AMONG SERBS
BELGRADE, June 10 (by mail).—
The German and Austrian peaceful in
filtration of Serbia has begun. The
hotels of this city harbor guests
whose identity is revealed by their
heavy Teutonic cast of features. They
talk in German and laugh loudly over
their beer. Indeed if one does not
speak German in Belgrade one some
times finds himself misunderstood.
The waiters do not know English or
French in the majority of cases.
“My friends in Basle told me I
would be mobbed in Belgrade if I
spoke German here,” declared a self
styled Swiss' salesman. “However, I
found that when I spoke Italian I was
treated with disrespect, that when 1
spoke French I was ignored and that
when I spoke English I was smilingly
but politely told, in German, that I
could best be served by speaking the
tongue I know best.”
Serbia from one end of the country
to the other has been flooded with
cheap Austrian and German goods.
How they got in one cannot learn
but every shop window in the villages
from Uskub to Semendria contains
cheap mirrors, toilet articles, knives
and gimcracks of every description
“Made in Austria.” Many of the ar
ticles are backed with colored pic
tures under celluloid of the former
Austrian and German emperors in all
their regalia. There seems to be little
prejudice against German and Aus
trian goods among the peasants and
village dwellers of Serbia.
The Serbian hates the Bulgarian
as venomously as ever but he does
not sing a morning hymn of hate
against Germany or Austria. The
country is flooded with pictures of
atrocities committed by Bulgarians
upon Serbians. The former Emperor
Charles’ picture still adorns the local
police headquarters.
In Belgrade there is a bitterness
against the Austrians, especially
among the better class of people,
whose homes were systematically de
spoiled by Austrian officers who ship
ped sixty trains of household goods
from Belgrade across the Danube into
Austria. Each train was composed of
approximately thirty cars. Three hun
dred pianos were included in the loot.
Belgrade and Northern Serbia are
flooded with the depreciated Austrian
currency, in fact there apparently is
more Austrian money in circulation
than Serbian.
The American Red Cross employs
a number of German prisoners in
transporting its supplies. They are
better clothed than many Serb sold
iers and go about the streets laughing
and joking and in general quite at
home.
The American Red Cross has for its
warehouse the Palace hotel which,
just finished before the war, was in
tended to be the best hotel in Bel
grade. When the Austrians entered
the town, however, they deliberately
smashed the plate-glass mirrors and
marble wainscoting and stabled their
horses in the drawing room and din
ing saloon. The woodwork was torn
out for firewood and the mahogany fur
niture wantonly hacked with axes.
Major G. H. Edwards of Orlando,
Fla., who has been in charge of the
American Red Cross work in North
ern Serbia, distributing help to local
orphanages and hospitals, started
workrooms for needy women, gave
out supplies to hospitals and has
equipped medical staffs which travel
through northern Serbia.
MORTALITY STATISTICS
SHOW STARTLING FACTS
WASHINGTON, July 5.—The cen
sus bureau’s annual compilation of
mortality statistics for the death-reg
istration area in continental United
States shows 1,068,932 deaths as hav
ing occurred in that area in 1917, rep
resenting a rate of 14.2 per 1,000 of
population. Of these deaths, nearly
one-third were due to three causes—
heart disease, pneumonia and tuber
culosis—and nearly another third re
sulted from the following nine causes:
Bright’s disease and nephritis, apo
plexy, cancer, diarrhoea and entteritis,
arterial diseases, influenza, diabetes,
diphtheria, and bronchitis. The death
registration area of the United States
in 1917 comprised 27 states, the Dis
trict of Columbia, and 43 cities in
nonregistration states, with a total
estimated population of 75,000,000 or
about 73 per cent of the estimated
population of the United States. (The
territory of Hawaii has recently been
added to the registration area, but the
figures given in this summary relate
only to continental United States.)
EXPERTS ARE AMAZED
BY YOUTHFUL PAINTER
LONDON, July 5 (by Associated
Press).—London art critics express
astonishment over the drawings now
being exhibited at the Leicester Gal
leries by a 13-year-old girl, Pamela
Bianco. She was born in England
and now lives in Italy.
Musical child prodigies, it is
pointed out, are not uncommon, but
it is doubtful whether other instances
of such precocity in drawing as Miss
Bianco’s are on record. Already, the
critics say, she has a strongly-marked
individuality which is revealed in all
her work. A large frieze and two
large decorative female heads are
among her pictures on exhibit. Her
power of design on a large scale is
regarded as remarkable. Another pic
ture of hers is of a children’s peace
celebration, and the expression of the
children’s faces is so good that the
experts are amazed.
Try the Club Billiard Hall for
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We always have a supply of
pasteurized sweet milk and cream on
hand. Also buttermilk and Bulgarian
buttermilk. City Dairy. Phone 187.
The well-known “Westinghouse”
electric heaters are now for sale by
the Northwestern Hardware Co.
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