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...baby was officially listed as a pickaninny, then scrubbed, and listed as white. One man saved his small daughter by pushing her ahead of him through the sludge on a packing case. While being rescued by tugs and trawlers, Bolivar's survivors could see the Yugoslav ship Carica Milica (6,371 tons) sinking not far away, also mined. Some hours later, in the same vicinity, down went the British Black hill, Torchbearer, Wigmore; the Swedish B. O. Borjesson, the Italian Grazia (the war's first casualty under Mussolini's flag). This free floating peril in the North...
Jogging home in his high wheeled wooden cart, a Jugoslavian farmer boy looked out last week across a field of maize and thought he saw two peasant women tussling in the twilight. "Don't touch me, Milica!" screamed one. Cracking his whip and clucking to his nag, the farmer boy jogged on. Reaching home he mentioned with a shrug the trivial incident...
...night after a woman had screamed "Don't touch me, Milica!" the Baroness Irma Molnar did not return to Starilec. She had left her estate on foot in the morning, peasant clad, without seeing to her dogs and birds as she usually did. The few old servitors at Starilec. humble, discreet, waited several days, then reported their mistress' disappearance. Out rushed eager search parties to comb crag and dale for "the richest woman in Jugoslavia." There was bound to be pots of money in it for the man who found her, perhaps wounded by some wild animal...
When shrewd agents of the Jugoslav-Secret Police scurried out from Belgrade they questioned hundreds of peasants, found the boy who had heard someone cry, "Don't touch me. Milica!" Cogitating wisely, the detectives soon evolved a theory. Baroness Irma Molnar, they said with conviction, was strangled by a "woman unknown," probably "named or nicknamed Milica...