The daily progressive-miner., 1917-09-07

l The AuSITldn government Has Iudu' gurated and is continuing veritable reign of terror in Serbia. It demands almost daily a toll of victims. The 1 hangman has his hands full. In Krus- evac. in Jagodin, and elsewhere Serbs are being executed daily without legal process and without evidence of guilt. The executions are being photograph ed and the pictures scattered through out the land to inspire fear among Serbs who have survived the Austro- German invasion. These photographs were found in the possession of Ger man and Magyar officers captured on the Saloniki front.
 The Serbs who came under Bulgar- iandomination suffer as much as those living under Austro-Magyar-German ,ule. A Serbian student who succeed ed in escaping from Vranja to the Sal oniki front, relates the following al- most unbelievable incidents which he saw personally:
 Citizens Are Shot.
 To Surdulice, city twenty-five kill ometers from Vranja were taken by the Sugars some of the leading citi- zens of Vranja, Janko Tuckovic, Arit- on Miljkovic, Dorde Stefanoyic, Dorde Petroyic, Ariton Pantazijevic and Zafr Dingarac business men; Toma Zafrovic, member of the Serbian Skupshtina, and Toma Durdevic, the presiding magistrate of the county court All of them were tortured and finally shot The wealthiest business man of Vranja, Stojan Srbinac, was robbed of all his property and shot. In the church of Surdulice. the Bull garians killed the priest Stojan. In the church of Sapra, near Vranja, they killed the priest, Aksentij Popovic The Bulgarians have possessed them selves of all cattle. In caring for cat tie women and children were pressed into service by the Bulgarians.
 The crucifxion of children. the rav- aging of little girls and the maiming of women in Serbia were described by d British Red Cross nurse. She her self had seen the unspeakable mutil- ation o fEnglish "Tommies." Before her eyes had taken place the revolting outrages on her own sex, even unto children, to girls still in their teens. One of the nurses was killed and an other wounded while trying to get out of Belgrade
 Children crucIfied.
 1 For two days they tramped thru woods or along rough roads until they came to a camp at small village still within sound of the guns. There they were given some bread and water, and being given permission to help with the wounded, put messages in their 1 bandages to tell relatives in England l of their fate if harm should befall them. They had heard nothing about the messages, and could only suppose that the wounded had met with the same fate as the people at Belgrade. Snow was falling fast as they re- sumed their journey thru deserted ruined villages, taking to the hedges for shelter at night. After two or three days they came at nightfall to wood where, seeing what looked like 1 figures moving among the trees, and being unaware whether they were friends or foes, they moved with great caution.
 The figures were little children hanging to the trees, crucified, their limbs torn and mangled by being stretched from branch to branch their eyes wide open, and look of indes- cribable anguish and horror on their | faces.
 They went on to another village From the top windows dead women were hanging. Below were mutilated children, and in front of the houses were the men, who had been shot That was at practically every village Like scared animals the nurses went on, envying the dead. It was difficult to walk thru the snow, and they were suffering from weakness due to lack of food
 After several days they came to a lot of dead Serbian soldiers They forced themselves to go thru their pockets in the hope of finding some thing that would help them on their way, but others had been there before them, and there was nothing. They got to the mountains, but to get thru to Saloniki seemed hopeless task, and the nurses decided to sep