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

MASSACRES OF CIVILIANS 111

In a meadow, close to the river, on the left bank of the Yadar, just below the inn of Krivaia, 1 saw the following spectacle :—

A group tof children, girls, women, and men, 15 in all, were lying dead, tied together by their hands. Most of them Tad been bayoneted. One young girl had been bayoneted below the jaw, on the left, and the point of the weapon had come out through the right cheek-bone. Many of the corpses had no teeth Tete. On the back of an old woman who was lying on her face, there was some coagulated blood, and in this were found some teeth. This old woman was lying beside the girl whose wound has been described above. It would appear that the old woman was killed first, and the young girl immediately afterwards, so that the teeth of the latter were scattered on the back of the old woman. The chemises of the little girls and young women were blood-stained, which seems to indicate that they had been violated before being killed. Near this group, apart, lay the dead bodies of three men who had been bayoneted in the head, throat, and cheek. (The Balzarek affair.)

No. 24

Captain Ivan Mishitch, Commander of the 4th Coy., 4th Battn., 5th Regt., reports under the date of August 8/21st, that on August 7/20th he noted the following particulars at Leshnitza :—

No sooner had he entered the village than many women and little girls met him and his soldiers with complaints that the Austrians had subjected them to terrible tortures. They (the Austrians) had