ours, and I hope in losing their lives for their suffering
neighbours they have found better ones. Their work will never be
forgotten and their tombs will be respected as relics among us Serbs.
Besides, Great Britain also sent military help for Serbia. It was
dictated to Great Britain by the highest strategic reasons to send
troops to Serbia, to the Danube, in order to stop the Germans there, to
hinder their junction with the Bulgars, to annihilate all their plans
and dreams regarding the East, to defend Serbia not only as Serbia, but
as the gate of Egypt and India, and so to protect in the proper place
and in the most efficacious manner her oriental Dominions. But seemingly
England sent her troops to Serbia more to protect her honour than her
Dominions, more to help Serbia than to defend Egypt and India. The
number of these troops and the time when they arrived in Serbia
indicate that. Hundreds of miles the Serbs had been driven back by the
enemy before the British forces reached the Serbo-Greek frontier. But
still they reached the Serbian land, they fought on Serbian soil and
shed their noble blood defending that soil. Serbia will rather forget
herself than the English lives sacrificed for her in such a catastrophic
moment of her history.

England is THE GREATEST EMPIRE OF THE WORLD, not only at the present
time, but since the beginning of human history. Neither the artificial
combination of Alexander of Macedonia nor the ancient Roman Empire,
neither Spain of Charles V. nor Napoleon's ephemeral dominion were
nearly so great as the British Empire of to-day. Never has a nation
possessed so much sea and so much land as the British. This wonderful
Empire includes people of every race, countries of every climate, human
societies of every degree of civilisation, almost all kinds of minerals,
plants and animals, lakes and rivers, mountains and forests. The most
ancient civilisations of Egypt, India and the Mediterranean Islands are
brought together in conjunction under the same rule as the new worlds,
like South Africa, Canada and Australasia. The communication between the
zones of the everlasting snow and those of the everlasting hot sun is
established in perfection. The countries and peoples which were for
thousands of years in contact with each other only through dreams are
now in real contact through business, trade, science, art, and through
common sufferings and hopes.

Still it might be asked: Has such a great body