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

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Depositions by Austro-Hungarian Soldiers

No. 717, of the 26th Regt., says that they were not forbidden to loot and pillage. One company of his regiment boasted of having set a village on fire.

No. 78, of the 28th Regt. They had no precise orders with regard to pillaging.

No. 79, of the 78th Regt., says that the Hungarians laid waste all the villages in Syrmia. The Mahommedan peasants always followed the Army transport section in order to plunder.

No. 80, Hospital Sergeant of the 28th Landwehr Infantry Regt., deposes: The soldiers pillaged and set everything on fire—houses, gardens, granaries. Each battalion was accompanied by about 50 Bosnian Mahommedan peasants whose business it was to sack and burn the Serbian villages. These men were veritable savages who yelled all the time, while they plundered. In Uzovnitza, the house of the pope (priest) was completely sacked and the furniture destroyed. The soldiers made up the fire on the bed; the pope himself was compelled to walk in front of the troops. On the day of the battle near Krupanj, witness arrived in Krupanj

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