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...death rate of this mild endemic typhus is very low, one death in about every 500 cases. The death rate of epidemic typhus is very high, on the average 100 in every 500 cases. In filthy crowded districts, like Serbia during the first years of the War, the rate goes to 300 out of every 500 cases. Victims develop high fever (104 degrees & 105 degrees), chills, vomiting, headache, delirium, exhaustion, toxemia, death...
...hustled out of a French railway car at Lyons, so that the car might be used to rush poilus to the front. Stranded but not downhearted, Irish Michael MacWhite joined the French Foreign Legion, fought all over the Balkans, and commanded the last French division to be withdrawn from Serbia. Presently the French Government sent him lecturing through...
...Since Baron Wrangel died, his army is now the Grand Duke Nicholas' army, but what is it? Scattered! A few thousand men scattered in Bulgaria and Serbia-they call it now Jugoslavia. A phantom army...
Croatians mourn Raditch as their most potent protector from the tyranny of Serbia, which is the "Parent Kingdom" of that realm called Jugoslavia, which includes Croatia. Jugoslavs of national consciousness believe, however, that Stefan Raditch, whom they deem a demagog, was a pernicious influence, obstructing the eventual union of the Serbs, Croats and other South Slavian peoples. If his murder does not provoke a revolution in Croatia, it may yet prove to have been for the eventual good of the whole kingdom...
...widow of Paul Raditch, mother of seven children, said last week: "I hope my husband will be the last victim of this strife and that Serbia and Croatia will make peace." Her wishes were respected to the comparative extent that only four persons lost their lives in riots which broke out at Zagreb when Stefan Raditch was prematurely reported dying...