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

102 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

three days I have sat here, looking upon my dead wife and child, whose bodies lie beyond the door. After covering us with shame, they massacred us with their knives and then they fled, the cowards. And I am the only one left alive. I look upon that pool of blood, their blood, which spreads towards me, and I cannot even take one step to move away from it.” In another yard I found a little boy of 4, thrown in there after he had been killed. The corpse had been partly devoured by dogs. Near him lay a young woman, stripped, and her slaughtered infant thrust between her legs. (See report No. 6.) A little further on, the body of an old woman was stretched on the ground. On a metal bedstead, hidden in the interior of the house lay the body of a very beautiful young girl, all convulsed by the final agony—her chemise covered with blood. On the floor, almost hidden beneath a pile of rugs, lay an elderly woman, also killed.

On the far side of the village I found two old men killed beside the door of a little cottage. Opposite the cottage two young girls lay dead. The peasants told me that the Austrians took all the inhabitants of both sexes, including two children, to their camp, and there ordered them to shout Long live the brave Austrian army! Long live the Emperor Francis Joseph!” And all who refused were shot on the spot. I was also told that they killed the peasants for one or two dinars. In one house they (Austrians) found an old woman with her six daughters. Four of the daughters and the mother were killed, one daughter was wounded, and the remaining one contrived to