The Kingdom of serbia : report upon the atrocities committed by the Austro-Hungarian Army during the first invasion of Serbia

86 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

ing. Two other women, 4nka Mladenovitch, aged 85, and Draghinia Mladenovitch, aged 20, were taken 200 metres away from their house and violated.

In Azbukovitza Draghitch Vaisitch, aged 51, Mayor of the parish, declares that during the first invasion there were five persons killed and eight lost sight of. Those killed had their noses and ears cut off. He also knows a girl who had been outraged.

In Uzovnitza

Gjuro Gjuritch, aged 57, deputy-mayor, states that during the first invasion one person was killed and five during the second. His cousin, Ilia Gjuritsch, aged 75, was hanged, and then run through with bayonets. The others were massacred with the bayonet. Gospava 1'rifunovitch, aged 75, was burnt in his house. Avram Kostitch, aged 90, was shot. Urosh Bolitch, aged 80, a paralytic, was shot.

Michailo Gjuritch, aged 49, of Uzovnitza, found his father Ila, aged 75, hanged before his own house. He was covered with bullet-wounds and bayonet-wounds. (See preceding deposition.) His sister, Yana Nikolitch, aged 48, was compelled to carry the Austrian wounded to the Drina. She asked them why they had killed her old father, and they answered ‘ Because he refused to shout ‘Long live the Emperor Francis Joseph.””

In Gornia Bukovitza Viadimir Yovanovitch, aged 52, saw four soldiers violate the young girl Krista Nikolitch, aged 18. She begged them to kill her rather than to dishonour