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

CAUSES OF THE MASSACRES 175

Regiment, deposes: The officers told us to shoot all that was Serbian. The Hungarian officers were the most ferocious. Wherever the regiment went the officers urged them to kill everything—cows, pigs, chickens; in short, everything—even what was not necessary for the subsistence of the troops.

Lieutenant Fischer, or T'rischler, said in front of witness to two medical men that the Serbs brutally ill-used their prisoners, cutting off’ their noses, ears, the penis, etc., and he added, “but I have got everything ready for these ruffians.” The others asked him what he had prepared, and he replied that he had converted 150 revolver-bullets into dum-dum bullets. When witness expostulated with him, and told him that one ought not to believe such rubbish, the Lieutenant answered that these things had been said and written by intelligent people, and that he, for his part, believed them. Moreover, he did not care for “ Kultur,” and preferred his « to a thousand Serb swine,” who deserved nothing better than dum-dum bullets.

No. 88, of the 2nd Bosnian Regt., says that his regiment had orders not to touch anything, and not to kill any one of the civil population.

No. 89, of the 78th Regt., had heard that the order to spare nothing was given by the high command. First-Lieutenant Feutek of the 2nd Company on active service, said at Osiek, the garrison town of the 78th, that they must show the Serbs what Austrians can do. They were to spare nothing and to kill everything.

No. 90, of the 78th Regiment, 15th Company, related that First-Lieutenant Bernhard told them