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

22 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

families in these four districts have been rendered destitute.

I made the following memorandum of the number of houses set on fire in some of the villages inspected by me:—In the village of Ribare, 50 houses, and more than 200 barns were burnt; in Prnjavor, 179 families lost their property through fire; in Novo Selo, 3 dwelling-houses and several barns were set on fire ; in Leshnitza, 2 houses and several barns were subjected to the same fate ; in Yarebitze, one house and many barns, stables and hayricks were set on fire; in Kostainik, 4 houses and 120 barns were burnt; in Bela Tzrkva, 3 houses became a prey of the flames; in Ljubovia, 135 families have had their houses, their barns, sheds or stables burnt, representing a minimum total value of 873,000 francs ; in Selanatz, one house and about 15 barns were set on fire; in Azbukovitza, 39 families have suffered serious loss from having had their dwellings and barns set on fire ; in Uzevnitza, 20 houses and many out-buildings suffered the same fate; at Donja Bukovitza, 9 houses and many out-buildings were set on fire; in Donje Koshlje, 12 dwelling-houses and 30 to 35 outbuildings were burnt, ete.

Proof, that this incendiarism was deliberately organised by the army of invasion, is afforded by the deposition of , Mayor of , 10 which he declares that the Austro-Hungarian soldiers were provided with small tin cans. With the contents of these tins they washed down the houses they desired to burn and set them on fire with matches. In other localities

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