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

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been burnt by the 100th Regiment in the third village after Ljubovia. The order for these massacres was given by Lieutenant-Colonel K7ebs of the 100th Regiment. An officer of the 2nd, FirstLieutenant Stibitch, expostulated with Krebs and asked why he had burnt these people. Krebs told him that they were comitadjis and that in any case it was none of his business.

No. 64, of the 93rd Regiment. Near Ljubovia a lieutenant of the first Company shot a priest with his revolver. Captain Veit ordered the corpse to be burnt.

No. 65, of the 96th Regiment of the line, asserts thatthe Austrian soldiers ill-treated the civilian population, and that it was especially the Hungarians who distinguished themselves in these massacres.

No. 66, Reservist, of the 70th Regiment. Captain Lahodny gave the order to kill every Serbian creature without mercy, both in Serbia and in Bosnia, and also to burn the villages. In Tuptzi (Bosnia) he saw a party of 5 killed and subsequently, on the line of march, many more, but as his nerves were badly shaken, he could no longer bear to look at them.

No. 67, Corporal in the 28th Regt. Lieutenant Jekete, having captured a party of 20 peasants, had 14 of them killed in accordance with orders received from the Colonel.

No. 68, squad-leader, of the 28th Regt., states: “ Lieutenant Miller, of the 28th Regiment, 8rd battalion, 9th Coy., killed a child and its grandfather with his own hands. He then set the house on fire and threw the two corpses through the