AUSTRIANS IN CONFUSION.
,v PILLAGE AND MURDER., OFFICER PREFERS • SUICIDE. (Received November 27, 8.45 a.m.) ROME, November 26. Eye-witnesses from Calicia describe the Austrians extraordinary confusion and disorder. Entire detachments have been foodless for days, and there has been wholesale, pillage, residents being shot on the slightest pretext. .One officer committed suicide after writing to his wife as follows: "I am going mad. I am unable to fulfil such orders, and would rather commit suicide than be a murderer. '"
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 252, 27 November 1914, Page 7
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