A Disappointed Officer

A Serbian Who Would Fight for Us Not Allowed to Land.

On the steamship Pretoria, which arrived on Saturday, was Lieut. Peter Jabanowics of the Serbian Army. Lieut. Jabanowics resigned his commission as commanding officer of a cavalry company in order that he might take up arms for the United States. Upon his arrival here he was detained at the Barge Office, as he had only $10 and the war was over.

The Lieutenant's detention greatly irritated him, but he hopes to be liberated today through, the aid of Nikola Tesla. Jabanowics says he fought through the Bulgarian-Servian war side by side with a brother officer who is a cousin of Tesla.

Jabanowics is thirty-two years old, and has served in the army for fourteen years. He is an expert broadswordsman and has been under fire a number of times. King Milan gave him a decoration for gallantry in action.

Should he be allowed to remain, Jabanowics says he will learn the English language as rapidly as possible and will reside in this country.