The Washington herald., 1915-05-04
'CHARRED BODIES
FOUND IN ruins
Serbian Mothers Slain While
Defending Their Young
Daughters.
NURSES PREY OF MODS
Churches Are Turned Into Stables.
Women Attacked on Holy
Affairs.
NURSES PREY OF MODS

| The following account of Austrian
atrocities was given out here yester-
day by the Serbian Agricultural Re-
lief Committee of America The COM
mittee's statement follows:
IN our campaign to secure relief
| for suffering Serbia we have refrained
! from giving out any information
against the enemies of Serbia We
! make public the official report of
| Austrian atrocities during the first
| invasion of Serbia at this time merely
| to explain what caused the non-com-
! batants to flee to the concentration
| camps in the south 'when the second
invasion began. 1t is in these camps
| that typhus fever is taking its fright
full toll. The incidents given below
port. and are by no means the great
est of the horrors perpetrated. as
much of the report is unprintable
-Four cities and forty-one towns
and villages have been completely or
! in part destroyed. They have not
| been pillaged in the ordinary sense
| of the word; they have been totally
| devastated. The Austrians have de-
stroyed everything they could not
| carry away. They have poisoned the
| wells. have carried off all money and
paper of value in the banks and de-
! stroyed the books and registers. and
have destroyed all material for teach
ing in the schools. Churches and
monasteries have been the particular
object of hatred. The church at Var
ebitza was turned into a stable
Young girls were dragged into this
church and violated upon the holy
table.
Twenty-seven Bodies In RavIne.
'1nnumerable assassinations among
the civil population were committed.
In Zoulkovitch were found masses OF
men. women and children with their
threats cut or burned alive In
ravine lay twenty-seven bodies o.
men. In one house six sisters were
executed.
I'm Prniavor the inhabitants were
forced at the point of the bayone,
into their houses and the houses were
set on fire. Fifty charred bodies were
taken out of the house of Milan Mil
outinovitch.
I'm Yarebitza the throats of a wo-
man and her four infants were cur
and their bodies piled together.
I'm a field near Krivaya were found
fifteen bodies of men and women with
their throats cut The face of a
young girl had been transixed by a
bayonet, which had entered the left
side of the lower jaw and come out
by the upper part of the right cheek.
I'm Maova was found a young woman
killed and upon her breast her young
nursing baby still living.
''Old men of so and infants of year
were killed: Peter Panitch 81; Jivko Ar
senovitch. 20: lila Markovitch. 40: Lou
bomr Giourgievitch, -. a son Of Milorad
Giourgievitch, Is: and child of Sobria
Nassilievitch, 4. and a son of Dragomir
Ghiourghevitch, 3.
In Tsoulkovitch, infants of year were
chopped up with knives. I
I'm Lechnitsa. all the male children |
over eight years were killed.
I'm Grouchitch. Bella Reka, Tsoulko-
witch. etc. the mayors were shot, to |
brighten the inhabitants.
AT Tsikote the nose and ears Of lila |
AIekstch were cut off: chunks OF flesh |!
were then cut from his thighs.
AT Dvorska. Maxine Vasstch was |
tied to a mill-w wheel and he was stuck |
with knives as he turned
Women Slain with Axes.
AT Bogossavats a young woman. who /
was about to become a mother, was |
killed. her unborn infant torn from her |
and spitted on a knife. Most women who |
were killed here were left naked.
AT Chabats in a hotel where a num-
Der of inha bitants had been held, all !
girls over 10 years were violated in the |
presence of their mothers. who were kill
ed with axes II they attempted to defend
their children.
Young men and boys were made cap
tives and taken to Austria, in order. the
Austrians said. that King Peter shoulc
remain without soldiers during a num-
Der of years. All the young men of
Pothovitsa, Ribari. and Bola
Roka. and twenty boys and young girls
from Tsoulkovitch. were carried away.
At Prniavor all male children over l2
were taken. Many inhabitants of Chour-
lisa. Tchokochina Bastava Maikovitch,
Likodra and Nrbitch were made cap
tivcs."