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.
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