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

118 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

Regt., reports under the date of August 12/25th, that he went to see the village of Prnjavor, of which he is a native, and that he there substantiated the following facts: All the men were assembled by the Austrians, one party was taken to Leshnitza, and executed there, the other locked up in the School buildings and given to the flames. Several women were assembled in the large house, generally known as the house of Milutinovitch, executed, and then burnt with the house. This party included several children who died in the arms of their mothers.

No. 30

Colonel Dr. Mihailovitch, of the Army Medical Service, Inspector of the Cavalry Division, reports under the date of August 10/23rd:

In the inn of the village of Petkovitza, where the seriously wounded Serbian soldiers had been left, he found four charred corpses. In the fields belonging to the village he found the bodies of massacred peasants. The villagers told him that many peasants had been taken away as hostages. According to the depositions of the inhabitants, which tally perfectly with each other, the Austrians either killed or took away as hostages most of the male population over the age of 12. There were many cases of rape. Even girls of 10 were ravished. He was told that a child had been speared with a bayonet before the eyes of its terrified mother. He was also told that an Austrian soldier had sucked the breast of a wet-nurse.