WAR IN SERVIA LONG
STRUGGLE UNDER GROUND
MITROVICA, Hungary.—The south
ern theater of the European war has
Its "Yser canal and west Flanders"—a
terrain the possession of which meant
much to the adversaries. Before the
Austro-Hungarian army could make
headway against Servio it was neces
sary to make the Macva district, and
before this could be invaded the Para
snica peninsula. In the Save north of
the Drina’s mouth, had to be taken.
The Austro-Hungarians who first
attacked the Serbian positions in the
Parasnlca early In August discovered
that the undertaking was too costly
and for over a month contented them
selves with what may be called a siege
of the position. By the end of Septem
ber it became more apparent than ever
that the Parasnlca and Macva would
have to be cleared of Serbian troops,
and operations against the intrench
ments and redoubts on the peninsula
were resumed.
The determination of the Austro
Hungarians to take the Parasnica was
no less fixed than the realization of the
Serbs that with this position gone the
fate of the Macva, Serbia’s risehest
district, would be sealed. The struggle,
therefore, continued with unabated bit
terness, and finally was carried into
the open country beyond the peninsula
Towards the end of October the Par
asnica was finally occupied, after a
• desperate struggle, and from that time
on the advance of the Austro-Hungar
ian troops, while slow, made steady
headway until Valjevo and Kraujevac,
the last fortified position o flhe Serbs,
was in their hands.
The area of the Parasnle is approx
imately two and one-half square miles.
Today its level surface is furrowed by
intrenchmcnts, redoubts, bomb proofs,
and covered and open passages from
one trench to another, the whole lo
cality having the appearance of a tre
mendous maze, and in some parts the
impression is conveyed that a whole
[underground city had existed there at
one time. Xot a few of the trenches
have tieen used as graves for men and
animals.
Tn many places the trenches are fif
teen yards apart, and in only a few in
stances are they separated bv more
than fifty yards—eloquent testimony
of the severity of the struggle for their
possession. So well constructed were
the trenches, sheltered ditches, and
bomb proofs that field artillery was
useless, and so well defended were they
by the Serbs that every attempt by the
Austro-Hungarians to take them by
infantry attacks resulted In terrible
slaughter.
In the end a practice common in the
wars of the middle ages had to be re
sorted to—countermining. The Serbs
had entrenched themselves to a depth
of from five to nine feet, had dug tun
nels from one position to another, and
the field artillery of the Austrians was
useless. But the Austrian sappers dug
deeper tunnels at right angles to the
Serbian trenches and parallels through
which their infantry would advance
under cover of night. In this manner
ground was gnlned on one day to he
lost again, perhaps, the following day
by a similar maneuver of the Serbs
For about six weeks this subterran
ean war continued. It was ended by
the bringing up of heavy mortar hat
terles hv the Austrians Many of the
Austrian shells fell Into the Serbian
trenehes and killed or maimed every
soldier in them.
Everywhere the men adopted efforts
to make themselves comfortable \d
lolnlng the trenches one finds small
caves whose floors are still littered
with straw and hay, on which the men
slept. While during the day It was
fatal to show the location of a trench
hv the smoke of a fire, the men seem
to have managed to get a warm meal
at night Many of the caves show
fireplaces.
Gne large underground cave had at
least four barber shoiwt and three,
baths—used, it Is supposed. by the
Serbian officers.
Gradually the Serb Inhabitants of
the Macva are returning to their ruined
homes
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RULE IN BERLIN
BERLIN—Berlin residents recent1>
were busy making preparations to take
up their culinary duties under the
bread ticket regime which will take
place immediately. So-called bread
commissions were issuing tickets
which must reach house-houders or
they will have to go without bread.
The food supply of tlie nation is in
the hands of officialdom. The follow
ing are the regulations, uniform in all
municipalities of more than 5,000 in
habitants.
Only three sizes of rye bread can lie
baked, 2.2, 3.3 and 4.4 pounds; only
one kind of wheat bread, a roll weigh
ing only 2.2-3 ounces, and pastry only
on condition that it contains not more
than 10 per cent of its total weight in
cereal flour. The total weekly per
capita consumption of all kinds of cer
eal flour and bread together is limited
to 4.4 pounds.
Restaurants in Herlin receive at
present only three-fourths as much
bread as in normal times. There are
no rolls. All bread is charged for. in
addition the housewives of the nation
are being mobilized for lessons on
economy by the best cooks of the em- ,
pile.
The total average consumption of,
bread and flour—and it is mostly!
wheat-—for tlie last two years was 3,
I
Ono grams per capita, as compared with
tlie present regulation of 2,000 grams
so that the allowance has bee nre
cl need one third.
Then tlie Russians invaded Kusl
Prussia, the granary of ilie nation, and 1
put to the torch thousands of barns!
simply bursting with grain.
Vegetables and fruit make up nor
mally only about 4 per cent of the
total nourishment of the people reck
oned by calories. The great falling
off in their imports therefore is of lit
tle consequence.
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CASTE FEELING
TEUTON CURSE
MERLIN, via London.—Germany; a
disease ridden, disintegrating body,
slowly bleeding to death from terrible
self-inflicted wounds; a country fast
declining as a consequence of the
hereditary faults and weaknessess of
its own inhabitants; a land that could
be saved from certain doom only by
the terrible storm of war, which nlono
had the power to lash it back to its
senses.
This, in subtance, is the picture
drawn by Prof. Paul Harms in the
Merliner Tageblatt. In political, re
ligious, and social respects, Prof.
Harms argues, the fatherland was fast
deteriorating.
Three perilous ulcers on the body of
the German state could lie and were
cured, he declares, only by a war which
brought on a wave of patriotism and
unity.
An ever widening cleavage between
the Catholics and Protestants; a grad
ual loosening of the bonds uniting
Germany and Austro-Hungary; petty,
narrow minded caste spirit and class
division that "only too often barred the
free development of the able and am
bitious'’—these are the three things
which, Prof. Harms says, were “sap
ping the very life and heart blood of
the German nation."
In his article, which is a sort of Now
Year’s soliloquy, being headed “New
Year, 1916,” Prof Harms says in part.
“Caste spirit, the great hereidltnry
sin of the Germans—not only in poli
tics but in the economic and social
fields ns well, and even in the field of
art had again sprouted. Hedged in
by this or that party dogma, the think
ing power of most of us had frozen to
a mere mechanical proposition into
which we thought we had to jam tho
whole rich life of the German nation.
A mighty event had to come from
outside to bring the nation back to its
senses. Hut this we may assert with
just pride: When the Russian tyranny
menaced the German people at its own
borders the nation stood the fire test.
"It was as if the ghost of its several
thousand years' history rose before it
in its gigantic might—the history
which, after all, has been nothing but
one great painful struggle for this
state.
“Now, after five months of defensive
war, we are less than ever disposed to
egotism and self-sufficiency. We feel
the weight and the importance of tlio
task which the world’s history has
heaped upon our sholdiors. We will
not convince ourselves that It is as
pure as angles of innocence (hat this
task found us.
“Unto the highest tops this nation ts
permeated with the realization that
after the war much must he changed.
There will remain for us, even after
peace is made, much to do to remove
those artificial barriers that heretofore
have stood in the way of the selection ,
of the ablest."
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