With the Serbs in Macedonia

262 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
foot the very earth has groaned. The ruins m
Serbia are to a very large extent their work.
For generations to come, devastated villages
and countless graves will be the hideous monuments
of their martial prowess," declares an
official report. But the Serbians have no desire
to ''
get their own back," barbarians though
they are supposed to be.
A Magyar paper, the Az Est, of November
27th, 1918, reveals the principles by which the
Serbian Army of Occupation is guided. The
correspondent of the paper
interviewed Colonel
Savatitch, Officer Commanding in Temeshvar,
who said to him :
''
My mother, who is an old woman of sixty,
was at the beginning of the War taken from
Shabatz to Szeglod where she was interned.
For four years she lived in the greatest misery,
housed in a building no better than a stable.
I shall weep when I remember that. For all
that, the thought of vengeance has not for one
moment entered my mind. The Magyar and
Austrian soldiers, and the Germans in even
greater measure, have laid waste our land,
scattered our families over the face of the earth,
and ruined our country. But we do not intend
to repay them in like fashion. The war has
stricken us all. The work of destruction and
slaughter must not begin all over again. There
must be no more tears."