The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-19

putty Mr.. Tresic-Pavicic, exposed in
the Vienna Parliament the horrors
perpetrated on Austrian government
After some delay part of the speech
was permitted to appear in the Croa-
ton paper "Novosti," on October Is
and &c. The rest was censored. Still.
even in its mutilated form, it is ona
of the most terrible records even in
the history of this war, where horror
outbids horror at every fresh turn
Mr.. Tresic-Pavicic, in his speech,
gave the following examples:
BY M. TRESIC-PAVICIC
"a JugsIav Deputy in Vienna Parlia-
ment.)
As soon as the war broke out, the
TEMPEST of determination of a Jugo-
slav patriots began to rage All those
whose national sentiment was awake
conscious and honest we're arrested,
informed, cast into prison, ruined, con-
demned, executed; all who were too
young or too old were doomed to die
of hunger; and the rest were intimi-
dated, demoralized and outraged.
When, after three months of i'm.
prisonment in Maibor (Marburg), 4
was brought up before a judge, the
latter said to me: "I don't know what
the charge is against you, and this
you will easily understand when You
consider that in Dalmatia, Istria, and
Carnola alone we have arrested more
than five thousand persons.
Scholier the Gaoler
In Mostar the prisoners slept in n
basement, on the floor, crowded one
nf will
thieves, brigands, and gypsies. The
greatest horror of this dungeon was
it's goaler, Kaspar Scholier. This in
dividual, armed with an iron crook
which he had nicknamed the Kron.
prinz, used to call on his unhappy
charges more often than the latter
found desirable, and belabored them
blindly about the head and shoulders
with his Kronprinz.
Money alone could for moment
appease the rage of this Cerberus and
close his paws. This detachment al
prisoners included Kinda Redulovie
editor of the 'Narod' and the Ortho-
COX priest, ITCHY who eventually sue
cumbed in Arad to the injuries inflict
ed by this savage brute.
Murdered in Cold Blood
ITCHY, in the kindness of his heart
gave a tiny part of his own porr1ol
to his famished fellow prisoners
which so enraged Scholier that HI
struck out so numerically with hi
Kronprinz that the priest became I'm
conscious. Blood poured over hi
shoulders and chest from the blow
he had received, for the crook of tn
Kronprinz had torn away a consider
able portion of his skin. ITCHY trul
died a martyrs death.
Eventually some of these poor hos
tages were transferred to the uppe
floors, where those were confined t
serve as hostages. The words hostag
and traitor were deemed synonymou!
The hostages were selected at nigh
The loathsome face of Scholier, tn
gaoler, set in a frame of bayonet
that cleaned like mortuary candle
entered silently as, like q tiger, h
sought out and pounced upon his viz
tins.
Black Hole of Mostar
Ulysses companions in the cave {
Plyphemus experienced no create
horror when the monster tried to di
cover by the touch which of them VIZ
the latest than did these poi
wretches beneath the bloodshot eye
this inhuman monster. The hair
more than one of them was bleache
in single night with terror.
One day he carried off boys in Il
prime of youth, and the next old me
bowed with age. Such as desired
prolong their miserable life for a fe
days indicated by gesture how mar
bank-notes they were prepared to sa
rifice. To be taken as hostage w
equal to a sentence of death.
Hundreds persisted in this way.
Incredible Horrors
The rest of the prisoners we
transferred from Mostar to Ara
where before long spotted typhI
tiff" or tunnelitis terribilis, as t
poor wretches called it in their hum
of despair, broke out among the pr
oners
At first there were only two
three deaths a day; but later on tn
died in numbers
When the cold weather came I
dead were stripped in order to COY
the living who lacked clothes. Sol
of the sick in their delirium ere
away and hid in the straw in sol
corner, and two or three days wol
elapse before the edour of putr
The corpses were thrown anyhow
to carts Some gypsy would lead
procession with the cross in his han
and a hideous, cynical smile on
lips, while the Magyar soldiers vel
around the carts and shouted as
they had taken a whole enemy co
many prisoner. 1t was a verita
witches sabbath, which filled
hearts of the spectators with loa
inf and horror.
The number of those who died
Arad is estimated at from three
four thousand.
Starving Prisoners
Matters were even worse in Do
In accordance with a confiden
order from the military comman
seravejo, recommending that
prisoners should be treated with
greatest possible harshness and se'