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

122 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

No. 35

Captain Matia Nikolitch, Commander of the 8rd Company, 1st Battn., 12th Infantry Regt., reports under the date of August 17/30th, that on August 8/21st, in the village of Priclinovitch, he saw the body of an old man who had been massacred. Three other old men between 50 and 55 years of age had been riddled with bayonet-thrusts. The same was the case with three old women, whose bodies were found completely stripped. The body of a young girl was found in the same condition.

No. 36

Andrera Stanorevitch, Officer in command of the 3rd Coy., 2nd Battn., 18th Infantry Regt., reports under the date of August 17/30th, that a soldier of the 6th Infantry Regt. asserts that in a village near Prnjavor, he saw the Austrian soldiers violate a young girl and kill her directly afterwards. They also cut off her breasts and left her in a sitting posture.

No. 87

Captain Yovan Mundritch, Commander of the 1st Coy. of the 2nd Battn., 18th Infantry Regt. of the 2nd levy, reports that a young girl from Shabatz told him that she had been outraged by the Austrians. She told him that in Shabatz the Austrians had shut up all the women in an hotel, and that they then violated all over 10 years of age. Mothers, who attempted to defend their daughters, were ill-treated by the soldiers, who struck them with the butt-ends of their rifles.