New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-07
SERB BATTLEFIELDS
VERTTABLE SHAMELESS
Fighting Too Fierce to Permit Buryns the Dead and
Plains and Hills Are Strewn with Bodies
of Victors and Nanquished.

inc in necessarily. About 10000 al.
resdv have arrived. All have to nc
examined and all have to have ther
wounds dressed. and at Valievo there
are only six doctors.
In spite Of this appalling shortage
Of medical aid | witnessed yesterday
most touching spectacle. cav
drawn By oxen brought TO the hoSplta,
AZ Valievo its heavy load Of muuiated
aesh. In the first part Of the car were
three wounded Austrisns and IN the
second part two wounded ServianS ana
two more Austrians. The conveys
wanted to carry their Austrian wounded
40 the dressing room before their own
wounded. but the Servian doctor
stopped them. :;
"Brinr the wounded in the order IN
which they come" he commanded, ana
without any regard for the nationality
of the patients the doctor and ms COL
leagues commenced their great human
itarian work.
The whole OF Servia is stained with
blood. The whole country is overreh
with atrocious crimes committed oy
the invading Austrian troops. What'
then. are Red Crosses of neutral coun-
tries waiting for? Why do they not
come here? In the name of gallant
little Servia. i'm the name OF humanity
and the pitiable people, ] make an
urgent appeal to the Red Crosses TO
send a part Of their stats here. mere
arc thousands Of lives to be saved,
wanted to witness Austro-Hunga-
rian cvcrsses second time before
sncakinr of them. so that | could give
an exact and genuine account OF actual
facts. Courage failed me 10 sec all
hut what have seen can he told IN ono
Dhrasc. In the cnvirons Of Shabatz the
yanouished put the finishing touch TO
their acts Of fearful savagery ny
butchcrinC their Servian prisoners
whose corpses were found heapcd up IN
the town.
Yesterday and day before | ran
across country through Nallcvo toward
the Drina. Further north. barely forty
miles from Valievo, at Seablatcha, poor
refugees, who had fled from their
houses before the onslaught OF the
enemv's hordes. showed me eight young
persons tied one TO another who were
all pierced by bayonets. nh.
Five miles from there. at Bella
Tserka. fugitives of the village with
indescribable despair, we're burying
fourteen little girls, NlctimS Vi '"e
sanguinary Magyars.
could prolonG this horrible story ad
infnitum, for these black monstroslues
we're perpetrated right up to the BANK
Of the Drina.
Six peasants were found hanging IN
an orchard. At Lychnit2a, on me river
itself about 100 old men, inotfensive
civilians. were massacred before the
owes of their wives and children. All
women and children were led over on
the other side Of the Drina IN order 10
compcl the So ians 10 stop their IRE;
Hungarian Iussars distinguished
themselves in this army Of criminal
fanatics and bloodthirsty assasslnS' ~
js not war that Austria Hungary tired
10 make on Servia. That great nation
nro,id of its Western civilization, want
cd 10 exterminate the Servian people
she thought she would succeed IN heT
criminal task before even Servia hau
time to protest and defend herself.
Austrian prisoners affirm that they
received orders to hang all those sery,,
ING against their country, 10 burn al
the enemy's villages and to butcher all
their inhabitants, and they have exc
cuted this order in the most savage
manner conceivable.
The Servian Quartermaster General
is drawing up an official list OF Austro-
crimes.