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

2 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

10 ordinary cartridges, then again 2 explosive, followed by 10 ordinary, and so forth.

These cartridges are put up in cardboard boxes, similar to the ordinary cardboard boxes used in the Austrian army for holding 10 cartridges (two clips of 5). The labels on these boxes bear the printed designation “ Einschusspatronen” (Sighting cartridges). These bullets come from the State factory at Wellersdorf near Vienna. The Austrian Eagle 1s conspicuous on the base of the cartridge case.

As we have said already, the exterior of these cartridges is absolutely similar to that of ordinary cartridges, only about 8 cm. from the base they are marked with a black or red band. Moreover, the noses of some of these cartridges are normal, while others have a small flattened projection. The cartridges with normal noses contained bullets with copper casings, in the others the casing is of steel.

On opening the cartridge, the case is found to contain the normal charge of powder (see Plate 2). The casing of the bullet contains no lead except at the nose and at the base of the bullet. The forward part of the bullet, moreover, contains a tubular receiver cased in a thin sheet of lead. This is filled with a mixture, which the analysis made in the laboratory at Kraguievatz showed to be black powder compressed and mixed with a little aluminium (in the cartridges with steel-cased bullets), or a mixture of six parts of chlorate of potassium to four parts of sulphide of antimony (in the cartridges with coppercased bullets). A priming of fulminate of mercury is placed at the bottom of the receiver. Behind this receiver lies a second one of steel (c), containing a