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

44 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

window into one of the rooms. This lieutenant also gave the order to ‘finish off’ the Serbian wounded, as he did not want to be troubled with them. During the first invasion the officers ordered the men to kill all without distinction. During the second invasion the officers remained well in the rear of the soldiers. But before a battle they advised the soldiers not to surrender because they said the Serbians mutilated their prisoners of war in every conceivable way.”

No. 69, of the 28th Regiment. In Ruma, in Slavonia, he saw many houses burnt as well as several civilians killed. He never saw a single wounded Serbian soldier in the Austrian camp. Corporal 4dgler told the men that they would have their noses, ears, etc., cut off, if they were made prisoners in Serbia. Asa matter of fact the Serbian officers had treated him most humanely. The war was not popular, although the papers spoke of Serbia as a constant danger to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

No. 70 relates that he never saw any Serbian wounded in an Austrian camp.

No. 74, of the 97th Regt. of the line, states that at first, in the beginning of the war, during the first invasion, the men were allowed to do everything, burn, kill, ete., but that during the second invasion they were forbidden to burn, but allowed to take prisoners. He further adds that they were given orders to drive out before them whatever civil population they would find in the villages, and above all things to leave nobody in the rear. At Shor he saw the dead bodies of 24 civilians, both

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