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60 Watt Lamps.50c.
100 Watt Lamps.75c
250 Watt Lamps.$2.00
200 Watt, Gas Filled Lamps.$3.00
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: ROME, Italy, March 30. — Henry
: Haller, formerly of the Fifth United
: States cavalry, who was one of the few
• Americans In the Serbian retreat, de
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:• Clares that during the journey to Por
goritza. in Montenegro, In a four days'
■: snowstorm more than fifty thousand
S men died.
:• "They died so fast.” he said, “that
:• they fell every few yards all along
:j the road. The wagons and carts went
: right over the bodies. Nobody thought
of trying to turn out of the way, but
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there were so many they could not but
, drive over them. The roads were full
of mud holes. At one place I saw no
less than seventeen horses dying in
, one Immense puddle, unable to pull
themselves out.
"I saw hundreds and thousands of
ragged men. with their feet swollen
too much to wear shoes or to walk
on them, crawling along for miles on
their hands and knees through the
blinding snow, finally stopping and j
! dying soon afterwards. They never
[ made any appeals for help. It would.1
| not have been any use. Resides, they
] were too far gone. In know what they]
1 were about, that they were dying. :
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■ Their last effort to keep going was,1
merely a mechanical operation. Of 1
course the great mortality all along,1
our route was due to the barren na 1
ture of the country we were travers 1
ing, with no shelter for but a com 1
paratlvely few of us. There were even ] 1
I no forests where we might have felled1
| trees and built temporary quarters. 1
I Our fires for the most part were ’
| small, with barely enough wood to
heat water.” , 1
Haller, who was on a visit to Ruila '
lies! when the war began, enlisted in 1
the Austrian army and was serving a -
j a bugler, when, six months later, lie
• was taken prisoner by the Serbs and 1
then finally was marched with 75,000 1
other Austrian soldiers across the ;
mountains into Albania, and “there '
turned loose on the shores of Hie Adri
atic to fight for life against cholera, 1
fever and starvation.” 1
“We were supposed to have started
on that retreat,” said Haller, "with
a Serti army of over two hundred
thousand men and about seventy five
thousand Austrian prisoners. Not
many more than one hundred and fifty
thousand of the whole lot got over the
mountains, it was not because the
Austrians or the Bulgarians pursued
us. however, with much activity. We
died merely because of disease, hun
ger and exhaustion.
! “There were, perhaps, not more
. than two thousand women among the
retreating hordes with us, and It Is
a fact worth recording that they were
kindly treated and given whatever
comforts were available by soldiers
who were otherwise dead to every
feeling. I have seen such men, gaunt,
staggering along, half naked, with a
ew pieces of cloth for shoes, unable
o speak, with barely strength left
o stop near a dying horse and cut a
itrlngy steak from Its flank, straight
en up for a moment near one of the
women's carts and smilingly tender
heir last mouthful of food to some
>f the women.
“The treatment of the women on
his dreadful retreat was to me the
nost wonderful, the most moving, the
nost heroic part of the whole retreat,
rhese poor women in their flight from
heir homes, had in many cases, been
inable to bring enough clothes to cov
er themselves. Often they were witli
>ut stockings or underskirts, o- hats
">r shawls or cloaks. I have seen time
ind time again some freezing soldier
ake off his overcoat and force it upon
vome of these women, and seem al
most ashamed to look upon her shiv
wing body as he made the offer. Then
ic would search along the road forj
lours until he was able to strip some
lead maii of his clothes to replace that
which he had so freely given."
What Haller regarded as his must
•emarkable experience was the sight
if a mad soldier dying from starva
lon. "Clothed only in a ragged un
lershirt, he was running barefoot
lown a snow covered Albanian road
itraiglit as ail arrow, bellowing as he
■an," he said. “He ran on and on
town that road, seeing nothing, yet
wonderfully avoiding stumbling over
he bodies of other dead and dying
loldiers and the meat stripped car
■asses of the army horses which
docked the way. Suffering intensely
is I myself was. I turned and watched
his strange figure. At last a half
title down the road lie pitched for
ward, and as I passed him later I saw
ie was stone dead.
“Other than that incident there is
me other that will stick in my mem- j
>rv so long as 1 live." said Haller. |
This was the hanging of a Serb ino
her bv the Austrian troops before 1
vas made a prisoner. We were
parching across a rough country near
..oclinitzer, when we stopped near a
vayside hut at its spring to get a
Iriak. Colonel Ileill, of our regiment,
ilso went to get a drink. As he rose
rom the spring a shot came from the
uit. That shot was fired by a wo
nan. She stood at the door, an old
ihotgun in one hand, a baby in the
ither.
"One of tlie captains ordered her
lung. There was nothing else to do
nit execute her. As a rope was
jlaced about her neck and she was
ed to the nearest tree, all she said
,vas this, in a hard, cold voice: ‘My
lusband is a soldier. I. too, die for
Serbia.' She made no appeal. She
lid not cry out. We left her body
langing there in the wind. The baby
was picked up and sent to the nearest
prison camp to be cared for."
Through the efforts of Robert Have
rick, representing the United States
Huong the Austrian prisoners, Haller
was rescued from starvation at Du
razzo, and later Ambassador Page, in
Rome. Interested himself in the case.
‘I am going back home the best Am
erican citizen you ever say," declared
Haller. “I wish I had words to ex
press my feeling for the kind of peo
ple that are grown In the United
States.”
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JOHN RAWSON,
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