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

MASSACRES OF CIVILIANS 101

Krainovitch’s right arm was broken by a bullet, another bullet had passed through the muscles of his right leg, and a third had grazed his chest.

In Tzulkovitch he (Dr. Ristitch) found new-made graves. The people of the neighbourhood told him that 20 peasants had been shot there.

On the road from Kotzeljevo, on August 5/18th he met two ox-carts. In one lay a woman and her daughter, both wounded in the legs. In the other lay a little girl of 5 or 6 years, wounded in the abdomen.

No. 9

Lieutenant Draghisha Stoiadinovitch, Second in Command of the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 13th Infantry Regiment, reports under the date of August 9th/22nd:

On August 7th and 8th, being in command of the sentinels on outpost duty, I made the rounds of the village of Zzulkovitch and the neighbourhood. There, in a ravine, I saw, piled up one on the top of the other, the corpses of 25 lads between 12 and 15 years of age and of two old men of over 60, pierced with bullets and slashed with knives and bayonets. On exploring a house I discovered two dead women, their bodies riddled with bullets. In the yard of a house lay an old woman, killed beside her daughter. They lay just outside the door, half-naked, their legs wide apart. Within the house beside the extinct fire sat an old man, haggard and dying, covered with bleeding wounds caused by knife and bayonet-thrusts. He said to me: “I cannot tell how it is that I am still alive. For