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

MASSACRES OF CIVILIANS 41

they were given a little black coffee, at night, or in the morning. The officers drank wine or rum.

In 7'uzla there were many Serb civilian prisoners, especially women and children. When the women passed through the town the Croats spat at them. On September 29th, a fresh batch of 150 civilian prisoners arrived—old men, women and children. It was 10 o'clock at night. The women could drag themselves no farther, and the soldiers drove them on with blows from the butt-ends of their rifles. The men of the 60th regiment took a youth of 18 years prisoner, and immediately hanged him on a tree.

No. 58, of the 18th Infantry Regiment of Copreinz (Croatian), declares that in Dobritch he saw the soldiers of the 37th Hungarian regiment bayonet 11 or 12 children from 6 to 12 years of age. This massacre was perpetrated by order of First-Lieutenant Nagy, and took place on the 16th or 17th of August. Witness was only about 30 or 40 yards distant from the massacring soldiers. At that moment Lieutenant-Colonel Piskor of the 16th Regiment passed and called out to Nagy: Why are you doing such a swinish thing?” Nagy replied: «Order your own troops about and leave mine alone. I have my orders from my superiors to do this.”

No. 59, of the 6th Zabal Infantry Regt. Before they crossed the frontier, the Hungarian Captain Bosznai gave them the order to kill every living being, from the age of five to old men. But when the men crossed the frontier and came to the first Serbian village, the captain ordered them to set two