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h the object of cutting off supplies from the Serbian Army. April 10--Disease conditions are growing worse and the percentage of deaths from typhus is very high; 107 Serbian doctors out of 452 have died of typhus; the municipality of Uskub decides to name its finest street after Lady Ralph Paget, who has been working in Serbia with the Red Cross and is now convalescing from a resultant illness. April 16--Rockefeller Foundation War Relief Commission's first installment of a report on Serbia states that disease is spreading all over the country; there are more than 25,000 cases of typhus, while other fevers are also epidemic; cholera is expected with the warm weather; the nation is declared unable to aid itself. April 17--The Government submits to Parliament a new army credit of $40,000,000. April 21--Two invasions into Serbian territory are made by Bulgarian irregulars. April 28--Serbia holds 60,000 Austrian prisoners. SWEDEN. April 7--Sweden makes a strong protest to Germany against seizure of the Swedish steamer England. SWITZERLAND. April 13--German shells fall upon Swiss territory for the third time since the war began, according to a Delemont newspaper; the shots were intended for the French, but the aim was bad and they dropped near the town of Beurnevesain. TURKEY. April 1--Troops are being concentrated at Adrianople as a precaution in case war starts with Bulgaria. April 2--Both the Turkish and Russian Ambassadors to Italy deny a report that Turkey is seeking a separate peace. April 7--Field Marshal von der Goltz, in an interview in Vienna, says that Turkey is well prepared for war; she has 1,250,000 well-trained men and several hundred thousand reserves; the Sultan gives an interview at Constantinople to American newspaper men; he deplores "unjust" attack of Allies on the Dardanelles, adding that he does not believe the strait can be forced. April 15--Pillage and murder are reported to be rife in villages and smaller towns of the littoral near Smyrna; lives of Christians are in danger. April 18--Enver Pasha, War Minister and Generalissimo of the Turkish Army, in a newspaper interview lays the blame for Turkey's participation in the war on Russia and England; he says Turkey has a well-prepared army of 2,000,000. April 24--Refugees who have reached the Russian line near Tiflis, Transcaucasia, report that widespread massacres of Armenians are being carried out by Mohamme
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