UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 521, 11 May 1915, Page 7

UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES

SERBIANS TORTURED BY HUNS FROM AUSTRIA. Atrocities rivalling anything that, the imagination can conceive, and brutalities of a kind that recall the most callous tortures of the Middle Ages, are described in a memorandum issued by the Serbian Legation upon the atrocities committed by Austro-Hungarian troops in Serbia. Many are unfit for publication. Two or three examples will serve to show what the Austrian view of Rightfulness means. In the village of Yarebitza all the members of one particular family were found dead in the house, even children of two years. In another house of the same village the Austrians cut the throats of a woman and her four children, and then flung all the bodies together in a heap. Violations were committed in almost all the places through which the Austrians passed. At Ckabats, in a hotel where they had locked uj. numerous inhabitants, they violated all the children over 10, in the presence of their mothers, whom they struck with the butts of their rifles whenever they tried to defend their children.