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

16 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

conventions. It is most saddening to be compelled to note that the numerous Peace Congresses, Hague Conventions, philanthropic and scientific congresses have led to nothing but to the utilisation in actual warfare of engines of death and torture more refined than those of the age of the Inquisition.

I have also observed that the Austro-Hungarian troops made use of expanding, so-called “dumdum” bullets. In the hospitals at Valievo the army surgeons repeatedly pointed out cases to me, in which the wounds appeared to have been caused by dum-dum bullets. Thus fragments of a bullet which was apparently one of this type were extracted from a wound in the right thigh of Cavalry Commander Milivoie Yakovljevitch. But at the time I was still without proof positive that the Austro - Hungarians really employed expanding bullets, which are, however, far less dangerous than explosive bullets.

I was afforded this proof at Yadranska-Leshnitza, where Dr. Stanoie Milivoievitch, in command of the sanitary department at Yadranska-Leshnitza, forwarded to me an Austrian clip containing five dum-dum cartridges. These cartridges have been found in ammunition cases, and in great numbers upon the battlefields of Tzrna Bara and Parashnitza. They are dated 1914, and have obviously been turned out in a factory. The casing of the bullet is cut at a distance of about 5 millimetres from the nose permitting a cone of lead to project. Dr. Milivoievitch acknowledged the sending of the clip in a paper which is filed with the rest of my documents.