he famous marshal evolve a plan. And
then it happened that General Mi[vs]i['c], placed in command of the
first army, determined, after studying the situation, to risk
everything on a last throw. Mi[vs]i['c] was a quiet, methodical little
man, whose optimism was always based on knowledge--in the intervals
between Serbia's former campaigns he had won distinction as Professor
of Strategy. He now caused 1400 young students, the flower of the
nation, to be appointed non-commissioned officers; he likewise
produced a most brilliant scheme of operations, so that the whole army
was fired with enthusiasm, and so irresistibly did they attack that by
December 13 not a single armed Austrian remained in the country.
Ernest Haeckel, the great professor, had said at Jena that the native
superiority of the German nation conferred on them the right to occupy
the Balkans, Asia Minor, Syria and Mesopotamia, excluding from these
parts the weaker and inferior peoples who were living there. On
December 15 King Peter made a triumphal entry into Belgrade--a
Hungarian flag which had floated from the Palace was employed as a
carpet on the steps of the cathedral when the King proceeded thither
with his generals to give thanks for the miraculous success of
Serbia's army. Once more the famous little town, the "white town" that
is throned so splendidly above the plain where two wide rivers meet,
was in possession of the Serbs. Against this rampart many human waves
have broken--Attila and his Huns encamped on the plain, the Ostrogoths
appeared, Justinian built the city walls, then came the Avars and
Charlemagne and the Franks, the Bulgars, the Byzantines, the Magyars.
The white town, Beli Grad or Beograd, which we call Belgrade--Wizzenburch
was the old German name--has a glorious past and surely a
magnificent future.

When the Serbs came back to Belgrade in December 1914, the total of
Austrian prisoners was more numerous than the Serbian combatants. But
35,000 of these prisoners, together with 250,000 Serbs of all ages and
106 Serbian and Allied doctors, were now to succumb to the plague of
typhus, which the Austrian troops had carried from Galicia. Hospitals
were hurried out from France and Great Britain; heroic work was done
by women and by men; doctors operated day and night--in the hospitals
the patients were so closely packed that it was impossible to step
between them.

"In Skoplje," says Colonel Morrison, who in civil life is senior
surgeon