The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-30

Deported.
NEW YORK. Jan. 3o.-All the
charges of murder, rapine. ana political
pprrc, ION brought against the Austro-
hungarian and Bulgarian authorities
ruling over the remnants of the un-
happy Serbian people during the last
two years by allied, neutral. and even
some German Investigators are reiterat-
ed and amplifed in a formal statement
ISSUED by the Social Democratic party
of Serbia and placed in the hands of
Camille Huymans, secretary of the
International Socialist bureau. on Nov.
IL. 1917, in Stockholm
In a bricf introduction TO the Serbian
pamphlet NJ. Huvsmans says:
''Thi1 is not a work of hatred. II
i, n cry Of desperation
The document is signed 10y Daschan
POpoyitch. secretary of the Serbian So
cial Democratic party, and Deputy
Katllcroyitch. another prominent Ser
hian Socialist, In printing lengthy eX-
ccrpts from this fearful indictment Of
Tcutou and Bulgarian misrulc in its
issue of Jan. ], Die Frcic Xcitung of
Bcrnc points out that it ought 10 have
special weight because Deputy Katzler-
ovitch is an adhcrcnt of the thinner
wald faction OF the international Social
list movement, and never wa, clasSed as
Serbian patriot i'm the generally ac-
rcptcd sense OF the word.
Tho statement of the Serbian Social
lists opens 10y pointing out that when
the ronqucring Tcuton- Bulgar hosts
crossed the Save, the Danube and the
Tjmuk in the fall of 1915 Serbia al.
ready presented the appearance of a
gigantic graveyard and hospital and
was incapable of further resistance and
after referring to Field Marshal Won
NlJckcnseu = solemn proclamation ask
ing the inhabitants 30 return To THEN
homes aud assuring them that war wa,
not being wagcd upon peaceful citizens
continues: ...
81 n hut Bfs4ias w'Hs AHlYt empty woEdf
The whole system of the occupying al
ministratiou i'm Serbia is nothing els
than continuous warfare upon ia,
peaceful population. Furthermore, it i
not q system Of administration AT al
hut "a real punitive expedition on tn,
part OF Austria Hungary and, in an in
tcusihrd degree, on the Part of Bul
garia This word defines in the mos
exact and complete manner the charac
ter of Au>tro.llngarian and Bulgarian
rule in Serbia. From the very frs
days tho enemies Of Serbia have feel
ms'iuetivclv that this country woul,
NOT remain in their possession. Conse
quutlv, they resolved to render Serhi'
incapable of continuing its existence
Unfortunately, they have already car
ried out part of their task Therefore
il is not the duty Of the civilized worlD
to prevent them from completing thei
Infamous work.
Great emphasis il laid upon the eco
monte damage wrought by the invaders
and the German troops who marchn,
through Serbia in the fall of 1918 ar
accused of having set the example t
their Austrian and Bulgarian comradc
by the wholesale looting of public an,
private houses and shops. In the cours
Of describing how Serbia is being svs
tcmatically stripped Of practically cy
cry mOrsol of foodstufTs for the benefi
of her conqerors and her people drive
10 death from starvation, the statemcn
mentions the fact that the invader
have made their work Of desolation sti
more complete by cutting down nearl
all the noble forests for which Serb
was noted.
Taking up the question of the polit
cal regime maintained Ivy the invader
the statement say:
''Most logically comes political sla.
cry to supplement the economic mi
cry Of occupied Serbia. No form ,
community life is possible in Serb
at present. All societies, trade an