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Died. Ex-Queen Natalie of Serbia, 82; in the convent of Notre-Dame-de-Sion in Paris. Daughter of a Russian colonel and Rumanian princess, she married Prince Milan of Serbia at 16, bore Prince Alexander at 17, became Queen at 23. The dissipations and amours of her husband drove her to flee the country with Alexander, whom Milan soon kidnapped. Then Milan set Alexander on the throne at 13, retired to Paris, died in 1901. Natalie returned to Belgrade after her son married Draga Mashin, widow of an engineer, whom it was supposed Draga had poisoned. Officers...
...stubborn Serbs they did not disclose. But whether there would be a puppet state or a new province of the Reich, it was certain that Germany's hand would be heavy upon them because: 1) the Germans blame the Serbs for Yugoslav resistance; 2) Germany needs Serbia's copper and foodstuffs. They would probably not get much food from Serbia this year, thanks to war damage and the dislocation of agriculture which the German push has caused in all Balkan countries...
This rule rigidly defined the Nazis' plan of action in the Balkans: cut Yugoslavia from Greece, pro-Nazi Croatia from anti-Nazi Serbia, pregnable Thrace from defensible central Greece, the tough Greeks from the tough British...
...hills Serbia's famous Komitaji (guerrillas) went into action...
...last week she walked into a peasant hut on the outskirts of Belgrade and stood before 70-year-old Kosta Pechanatz, leader of the Chetniks. A veteran Komitadji, stationed on the Salonika Front during World War I, Kosta Pechanatz got a French aviator to drop him in Serbia, there made so much trouble for the Germans that it took three Army divisions to quiet things down...