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

156 AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ATROCITIES

In Krupanj

Every place in the town had been ransacked and robbed, and every dwelling devastated, except that of Dr. Alfandari, district physician, that of the chemist, and that of a merchant whose wife is a Bosnian, and whose brother is a sergeant in the Austrian army. The latter was with the detachment that visited Krupanj. Every safe was gutted, pictures were broken, mattresses spoilt, ete. The municipal records were destroyed.

Persida Simonovitch, aged 27, innkeeper in Krupanj. An Austrian staff, having for chief a general and a colonel or major, took up its quarters in her inn. Four officers, who lodged with her, asked her to sew them some little bags to hold the money taken from those who were hanged, from the prisoners, and that which came from the looting of the town. She asked them why they were taking away all this money ? The officers answered that the war cost very much, and that this money was to help their State to defray the cost. These same officers sent her out to procure wine which she paid for with her own money. They never refunded her expenses, although they drank and ate all the provisions she possessed.

The Brothers Markovitch depose that their shop was completely looted, and that their goods were dragged along the floor and soiled. The invaders tried to force the safe, but were unsuccessful. Messrs. Markovitch estimate that the Austrians caused them 50,000 frs. worth of damage.

The parish of Sokol was completely pillaged.