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

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MASSACRES OF SOLDIERS TAKEN PRISONER OR WOUNDED

Ox frequent occasions the Austro-Hungarian army has been guilty of massacring Serbian soldiers who had been made prisoners or wounded. This fact has been confirmed to me by the evidence of Austrian prisoners, by the official reports of the Serbian military authorities, by the depositions of eyewitnesses, etc., and finally, by the documentary evidence of photographs taken on the spot.

The following depositions quoted were made by Austro-Hungarian prisoners :

No. 37, of the 28th Regiment of the Line, relates that not far from Krupanj a wounded Serbian was moaning under a tree, and an Austrian soldier of the 27th Regiment shot him with his revolver.

No.38, of the 78th Regiment, states that von Bunié, a Croatian non-commissioned officer in the 16th Regiment, repeated to the others that a wounded Serbian officer had asked him for help. The noncommissioned officer said that he promised to call a doctor at once, but that instead of doing it he had killed the wounded officer.

No. 39, corporal of the 28th Landwehr Regiment, deposes that at Shabatz three Hungarian soldiers (1 squad-leader and 2 privates) brought in a Serbian

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