New-York tribune., 1917-12-22
DR.. Paricic Tells Parliament
of Atrocities by Troops
of Dual Monarchy
Thousands Murdered
Old Men and Women, He Says,
Forced to Dig Own Graves,
Then Shot
rAso.i,,ea rr,. corrc,poadencri

LONDON, Nov. 30.-Compelled to dig
their own graves. drowned, burned
alive. hanged or shot down By machine
guns. the Serbians Of Herzegovina, Bos-
MIA. Gstria and Dalmatia were the VIC
tins of Austro-Hungarian atrocities
surpassing the Imagination. recently
declared DR.. Tresic Pavicic, Slav
member Of the Austro- Hungarian
Chamber of Deputies. Narratives OF
Serbians made prisoners IN Austrian
iails and fortresses were related IN de-
tail before the Austrian parliament by
the Slav Deputy.
According to Dr. Payicic, these out
RACES we're practised upon the CIVILIAN
population, old men. women and emil
dren. when orders were given ny zen
eral Potiorek, described az the auto
crat of Bosnia. TO remove all the Ser
bians from the frontier districts.
The inhabitants of the village OF
Evico, young and old. were all led away
and on arrival at Mount Rudo were
compelled TO dig their own graves ana
10 lie down each in his own. Many
women. the Deputy said, lay down IN
their graves with children IN their
arms and the soldiers shot them one
after another. the living putting earth
over the dead until their own turn
came.
The ordinary method OF executing
those civilians, who should have oeen
interned. said the Slav Deputy, was 70
hang them. Eighty-two persons ne
said were hanged without trial at Lu,
bac. l03 at Trebinjo. II at Foca ana
800 at Tuzla. lie gave the names OF
victims and the dates and locali'les ol
,he outrages.
Of those who were not executed, he
declared. the very young and the aged
died of destitution 1t was the vigorous
comnetent and courageous who were
arrested. falsely accused, condemned
tortured and executed The Deputy
was informed. he said, that 5000 per
sons had been arrested in Dslmatia, Is
tria and Carniola. .,
TInon these unfortunates their jail
ers inflicted peculiar punishments' ac-
cording to the narratives OF TWO SUI
vivors related by DR.. Pavlclc. Ohe OF
these iailers at Mostar was character
lied in the speech as leroclous
beast" who beat his prisoners witn a
hooked baton of iron, which he called
the "Crown Prince" A priest named
ITCHY sfterward died at Arad, hun
gary. as the result of the tortures this
taller inflicted. ..--,
If those gathered at Mostar survived
they were transferred later TO Arad'
where thousands of living skeletons
were congregated from Bosnia and Her
gegovina." said the Deputy. famished.
naked. half dead from the blows OF
rides and bsyonet thrusts, they were
driven to the easements Of the Arad
fortress. In its subterranean corridors
they died in masses from typhoid.
At Doboj things were worse: Along
with Serbian and Montenegrin prls-
orers came crowds of civilian old men,
women and children. driven from home
and forced to travel in open cattle
trucks. Hunger was found'to be the
simplest and cheapest means of send
ing these people to another world
often the mother would be dead when
her little child shook her to ask for
bread. Trustworthy figures show that
more than 5000 innocent victims met
their death in these places, he said.