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

12 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

officer, who is their uncle, had explained the theory to them. Machine-gun sections in particular were supplied with explosive bullets. About 600 of these cartridges were supplied to each company.

No. 34, of the 100th Regiment, declares that only non-commissioned officers were provided with from 10 to 20 “Einschusspatronen.” Privates did not know these bullets. In time of peace these bullets are carefully locked up, and nobody sees them. Their use is kept exclusively for war. They are only given out to non-commissioned officers and good shots.

No. 83, infirmary sergeant in the 28th Landwehr Regiment, deposes: Lieutenant Fischer or Trischler told me in presence of two other doctors that the Serbs brutally ill-used their prisoners by cutting off their noses, ears, the penis, ete. The lieutenant added, ‘ But 1 have got everything ready for these ruffians.’” When we asked him what it was he had prepared, he replied that he had converted 150revolver- cartridges into dum-dum bullets. I expostulated with him, and said that one ought not to believe such rubbish, but Fischer answered me, that these things had been said and written by intelligent people, and that he, for his part, believed them. He ended by saying that he did not care a for « Kultur” and preferred his to a thousand Serb swine who deserved nothing better than dum-dum bullets.

No. 36, cadet in the Reserve, of the 102nd Infantry Regiment, was taken prisonernear Tzrna Bara. He alleges that he did not know of the existence of the “Einschusspatronen” before he came to Serbia.

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