Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
Deputies Charge Their Men
Were Deliberately Sacri-
feed in Battle
WHOLE REGIMENTS GONE
Complete Destruction of Mag.
var Units Aim of Austrian
Command, Alleged
By AUSTIN WEST
Special Gable TO Evening Public Ledger

/
Copyright. 1918. By Nc,c York Times Co.
Milan. July 10.
Important admissions of the frightful
Hungarian losses In the battle of the
Piave are published in the parliamentary
reports Of a batch Of Budapest journals
which have just arrived here. The
speeches in question have been put under
the ban in the Vienna press through the
action OF the Austrian censor
Deputy Abraham said:
THE losses sustained by Hungarian
| troops this time have been enormous
Trustworthy information shows that
HungarIans constituted 6S per cent of
| our forces on the Italian front, whereas
their due proportion should have been
| only 90 per cent. The behavior of our
command during the war proves that 1t
has always aimed at the compete de-
| struction of Hungarian units ii the
districts inhabited by the S,ecklers Ga
race similar to the HUI .sariass) in
| Pennsylvania no males are now found
under sixty Our war ought to have
been defensive, and we should have
avoided adventurous attacks that culml-
nate in disaster"
Whatever devices the Minister Of Ma
tional Defense may take to belittle
facts" said Deputy Fennyes, 1T Is now
demonstrated that during the Piave
| fighting numerous Hungarian regiments
suffered colossal losses. where, indeed
they were not utterly annihilated. The
| truth Is very different from what the
official communiques would fain make us
believe. The railways are transporting
the wounded by thousands to hospitals
| beyond the Danube. and even those of
/ the capital are overcrowded with pa
| tients
Officers and soldiers arriving from the
| Piave, who have no interest in lying,
affirm without hesitation that the
Thirty-second. Thirty-ninth. Forty
fourth. Forty-sxth and Sixty-ninth in
fantry regiments were completely de-
stroyed Those of their men who were
not dead were abandoned wounded on
the battlefield, or were hemmed in by
| the river and deprived of munitions and
| food. Vienna must be we'll aware that
the Hungarian race is fast disappearing
Males are now to be found only in the
towns. for the villages are quite de-
serted"
Speaking also of an earlier phase Of
the war, the first-named deputy re-
| marked:
| "Derbodo plateau, Monte San Michele
And Urzsek were all hells for the Hun
garians. Several generals commanding
divisions even went SO far as to bet
! heavily on the eventual losses of their
corps, ,boasting openly that they wished to
sacrifice the greatest possible number of
men. Hungarian re-enforcements de-
ported for the front necessarily, as
though Hungary was a bottomless well.
We have always been the barracks for
| the monarchy. At Serbac, in Certha,
more than half the soldiers of the Sc
mogy regiments were abandoned on the
field. Through the fault of the military
commander. our troops in Galicla had
hardly stepped from the trains when
they were riddled by enemy artillery, and
during the battle Of LUX the Eighth
Pennsylvania infantry regiment was
wiped out"
Both deputies insisted that Premier
Count Won Wekerle should take urgent
measures to insure the distribution of
Hungarians in the first lines in proper
'tion to the total population of Magyar
nationality.