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Bulgarian irregulars, opposing the Government of which Stambolisky is Premier, attacked the Yugo-Slavian troops along the Serbian frontier. Two hundred and seventy Bulgarians were killed and a large number of prisoners were taken by the Serbs...
...known. The original squad contained one American, born in Rhode Island and brought up in Massachusetts, who could neither read nor write when he joined the Army, and eight foreigners, most of whom could not even speak English. There was a Swede, a Finn, a Frenchman; a Serbian, a Czecho Slovakian, a Mexican, a Pole, and a Russian. These men are graduates of the Army School at Camp Dix, one of six Army Schools which take the illiterate and non-English speaking recruits and by means of a thorough course in English and citizenship, coupled with instruction in the fundamental...
...Phillips Brooks House collection of old clothes, books and magazines, shows that the drive was most successful. Some of the clothing will be distributed to the poor through the Morgan Memorial and the Cambridge Associated Charities. The remainder will be sent overseas by the Near East Relief and the Serbian Distress Committee...
...spite of Gabrielle d'Annuzio and his hair-brained followers, in spite of the elephantiasis of Serbian national pretensions, in spite of the various "unalterable stands:" determinedly held by various parties, common sense has prevailed in the Adriatic. Fiume will not form part of a new Roman Empire reaching from Gibraltar to the Hellespont. Nor will it form part of a Pan-Slavia extending from the White Sea to the Alps. Undoubtedly enthusiastic extremists on both sides will be bitterly and vociferously disappointed. But the world at large is thoroughly relieved over the ending of the impasse. A buffer state...
Serbia's history was likewise one to test the Imagination of students. Professor Coolidge piled incident upon incident to illustrate the unsettled times, featured by the Turks entering Europe, the Serbs passing under Turkish rule, Serbian immigration into Hungary and the Serbian wars of independence prior to 1876. Bosnia and Herzegovina were alluded to as "the meting ground between Serbs and Croats," and the settlements of the Congress of Berlin, with Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina causing intense disappointment of the Serbs. Nevertheless, there was the Austrian alliance and its predominance in Serbia till the accession of Peter Kaigevyevich...