AUSTRIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 7

AUSTRIA.

EMPEROR ABOUT AGAIN. GERMANY'S ACTION. SURPRISED THE NATION. Received 5.45 p.m., Sept. sth. A diplomatist in Vienna, states tliat the Emperor takes short walks. His condition is pathetic. It was not thought in Vienna that Germany would rashly jump at the chance of the Austro-Servian trouble to force Austria into' a greater war, hy entering into the long-wished-for task of smashing Europe. AUSTRIAN'S COPY GERMANS. IN CITY OUTRAGES. Received 5.5 p.m., Sept. 6th. PARIS" Sept. 4. A Nish correspondent of 'The; Journal ' states that Austrians hound to gctlier and shot eighty Servian prisoners at Shabatz and they bayonetted the bodies, saying they were doing it for practice. Fourteen girls, the eldest only sixteen, Mere found decapitated and stretched in a row on the bank of a stream at Bellat Serka. A hundred men were massacred at Lyclinitza in sight of their wires and children. Tlie Servian Press Bureau states that printed instructions have been discovered regarding the Austrians' behaviour towards Serbs. The instructions declares that the Serbs are filled with violent hatred of Austrians., therefore they must not be treated with chivalry anil humanity. All combatants in Servia not wearing uniform, nmst bo killed. Austrians disobeying this order will be severely punished. In the event of a shot being fired in a town, hostages must bo executed, r.ncl if inhabitants fail to give information they must be hanged.