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

150 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

do these things. Here we are behaving in the worst possible fashion. Yet our Captain has forbidden it most severely; these things go against his honour!”

& (of the 18/8). To-day is the King’s birthday. We are on the march, and passing through a large village near Yarebitze. I saw that all the shops and stores there had been looted. The soldiers carried off everything they could lay their hands on. I also saw the bodies of men and women who had been killed, and children between two and six years of age left alone, weeping. I also saw what I never saw before, and what no one will ever see again. 1 saw horrors, sufferings, and misfortune beggaring description.”

DerositioNs oF SERB CIVILIANS Shabatz

Marinko Stepanitch, merchant of Shabaiz, deposes that he had about 50,000 francs’ worth of goods stolen or spoilt. His safe was forced with a cold chisel ; it contained 2,000 fr., which have, of course, disappeared. Stepanitch senior, an invalid, aged 62, was taken away and made to walk ahead of the detachment. The whole house was gutted.

Maria, wife of Isa Svitzevitch, née Schneider (of Austrian origin), housekeeper in the household of Dragomir Petrovitch, lawyer, and Captain of the Reserve, deposes: Three Hungarian Officers stayed in my house. They polluted the table and the dinner-service. She prepared food for them, but had to taste every course in front of them. Everything was pillaged and destroyed. They carried off