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Title: Under Fire For Servia

Author: Colonel James Fiske

Illustrator: E. A. Furman

Release Date: August 21, 2010 [EBook #33480]

Language: English

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Under Fire For Servia

World's War Series, Volume 4

By Colonel James Fiske

Illustrated by E. A. FURMAN

THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AKRON, OHIO NEW YORK

Copyright, 1915
By The Saalfield Publishing Co.

[Illustration: In a moment they were alone in the heavens, racing toward
Servia.]

CONTENTS

I Dick Makes a Friend

II A Surprising Offer

III The Police Raid

IV The Refuge

V Under Fire

VI Across the Save

VII The Wounded Captain

VIII A New Exploit

IX Back to Semlin

X A Daring Decision

XI Craft against Craft

XII In the Nick of Time

XIII Face to Face

XIV The Explosion

XV The Tables Turned

XVI Belgrade

XVII Between the Lines

XVIII The Flight

XIX Hallo's Last Card

Under Fire For Servia

CHAPTER I

DICK MAKES A FRIEND

The American consul in the small but highly important city of Semlin, in
Hungary, was a busy man. He was probably one of the first men in the
world who knew how great was the danger of war between Austria-Hungary
and the little kingdom of Servia after the assassination of the heir to
the Austrian throne in the summer of 1914. Now, since the Austrian
ultimatum to Servia had aroused all Europe to the peril, refugees had
doubled the consul's work. All the Americans in Servia, and there had
been quite a number there that summer, seemed to be pouring through
Semlin. Indeed, all the Americans gathered there from all the Balkan
states, and from Turkey as well, since the great trunk railway, the
famous Orient line, c