Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-01
ATR0Cl|I'I ! IN IN
SERBIA DE;H''|lE ''S
DESCRIPTION ] ! N
Dr. pr Pavicic Tells ] Details
Surprising Human [rl,1n; ~
Imagination.

London,t1Jan. 1.-Compelled to dig
their own graves, drowned, burned
alive, hanged, or shot down with ma
chine guns, the Serbians Of Herzego-
VIVA, Bosnia, Isteria and Dalmatta
were the victims of Austro-Hungar-s
Imagination, recently declared DR..
RTresic Pavicic. q Slav member, OF the
Austro-Hungarian chamber Of depu-
ties. Narratives Of Serbians made
prisoners In Austrian jails and fort
resses were related in5ldetai1 before
the Austrian parliament by the SlaX
According to DR.. Pavicic. these out
RACES were practiced upon the civilian
dren, when orders were given by Gem
eral Potiorek, described az the auto1
crat Of Bosnia to removeNall the Ser!
bians from the frontier districts.
The Inhabitants OF the village ;3of
Svico,, young and old, were all. led
away and on arrival at Mount Rudo.
were compelled to dig their own
own. Many women. the deputy said,
Idren in their Arms and the soldiers
then shot them n after another.
the living putting earth over. the dead
until their own turn, came. %
The ordinary method Of executing
these civilians who should have been
interned, said the slav deputy. was
to hang them. but Instead the whole
transformed into desert. Eighty
two persons, he said. were hanged
without trial at Zubac. 103 at Trebin-
10, II at Foca and 800 at Tuzla. He
gave the names Of victims ard tho
the dates and localities of the out
RACES. n s.
OF those who we're not executed.
he declared, the very young and tho
aged died Of restitution. It was the
who were arrested, falsely accused,
condemned. tortured and, executed.
The deputy was informed, he said.
that 5000 persons had been arrested
in Dalmatia. Istria and sCarniola. DR..
Pavtcic was one of those arrested,
herded with brigands. insulted by
Hungarian soldiers and, beaten with
rifle butts. Many OF his fellow pris-.
lost their reason and he saw
the wheels of another which was pass
ing. Thousands Of Serbians, he de-
clared, were taken for internment to
Mostar. Herzegovina, to Doboj, Bos-
mia n to Arad, Hungary.
Upon these .unfortunates their Jail
II inflicted peculiar :punishments,
according to the narratives OF two
survivors related by DR.. Pavicic. One
of these jailers at Mostar was char
~acterized in the speech Is a 'ferocious
beast" who beat This prisoners with
a hooked baton Of iron which he
called "Kromprinz.". A priest named
ITCHY afterward died at Arad Hum
gary, as the result Of the tortures this
'jailer inflicted.
II those gathered al .Mostar sur
vived, they wer transferred later to
Arad. where thousands Of living
skeletons were congregated from Bos-
mia and Herzegovina" said the dep
,uty. .Famished, naked, half-dead
from the blows Of rifles and bayonet
thrusts they were drixen to the case
ments Of the Arad fortress. In its
subterranean corridors they died in
masses from typhus.
'As the days became COLDER said
DR.. Pavicic. they took clothing from
the dead to clothe the naked. The
number Of deaths at Arabs estimated
at between 5000 and 1900"
At Doboj things we're worse Along
with Serbian and Montenegrin pris-
oners ! crowds OF civilian old