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...World War I the Serbs gained a nine-month breather because German and Austrian troops were afraid to attack lest they be swamped by the typhus epidemic in Serbia. Russia was the highest loser, with 10,000,000 cases, of which 2,000,000 were fatal. With the same fear and figures in mind, the German Army was not sure last week which it feared most, the Russian before or the louse behind...
...spokesman in Berlin officially denied that the German Government plans to raze Belgrade or to exterminate the population. But a German military proclamation issued in Serbia declared: If German soldiers are fired on from any town, the town will be destroyed by fire, the male population will be taken prisoner, every second man will be shot and his property will be forfeited to the German Army...
When Novelist West was ten, "Alexander Obrenovitch, King of Serbia, and his wife Draga were murdered in the Palace at Belgrade, and their naked bodies thrown out of their bedroom into the garden. . . . The crime lingered in my mind only because of its nightmare touches. The conspirators blew open the door of the Palace with a dynamite cartridge which fused the electric lights, and they stumbled about blaspheming in the darkness, passing into a frenzy of cruelty that was half terror. The King and Queen hid in a secret cupboard in their bedroom for two hours, listening to the searchers...
...went to Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Old Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro. She climbed mountains, visited Roman and Venetian ruins, tuberculosis sanatoria, Turkish mosques, shrines, churches, monasteries, tombs, hovels, homes. She talked with intellectuals, professors, lawyers, peasants, poets, censors, soldiers, politicians, anti-Serb Croats, fanatical Serb nationalists, Bosnian Moslems and unassimilated Turks...
...There are two Yugoslav "armies" in the field, numbering between 80,000 and 100,000 men. One, largely composed of Regular Army units, which never surrendered, is fighting in eastern Serbia near the border of Bulgaria. The other is operating on the borders of Bosnia in western Serbia. From Bosnia fully 1,000,000 Serbs have been driven by Dr. Ante Pavelitch's squads of terrorists, the Ustaschi. Most of the men refugees have joined the Chetniks in the hills...