Weekly journal-miner., 1918-01-16
AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES
 UPON SERVIANS ALMOST
 BEYOND HUMAN BELIEF

dig their own graves, drowned, burn cd alive, hanged, or shot down with machine guns, the Serbians of Her zegovina, Bosnia, lstria and Dalmatia| were inc victims of Austro-Hungar- ian atrocities, surpassing the human imagination, recently declared Dr. Tresic Pavicic, a Slav member of the Austro-Hungarian Chamber of Depu- ties. Narratives of Serbians made prisoners in Austrian jails and fort resses were related in detail before the Austrian parliament by the Slav deputy.
 According to Dr. Pavicic, these out rages were practiced upon the civilian population, old men, women and chil- dren, when orders were given by General Potiorek, described as the autocrat of Bosnia, to remove all the Serbians from the frontier districts.
 The inhabitants of the village of Svice. young and old, were all led away and on arrival at Mount Rudo, were compelled to dig their own gra- yes and to lie down each in his own Many women, the deputy said, lay down in their graves with children m their arms and the soldiers then shot them one 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 iuterned, said the Slav deputy, was to hang them, but instead the whole Serbo- -Montcnegrin frontier has been transformed into a desert. Eighty two persons, he said, were hanged without trial at Zubac. l03 at Trebin- 10. 7l at Foca and 300 at Tuzla. He gave the names of victims and the dates and localities of the outrages.
 Of those who were not executed, he declared, the very young and the aged died of Restitution. It was the vigor- ous, competent, and courageous who were arrested, fasely accused, con demned, tortured and executed. The deputy was informed he said, that S,- GOO persons had been arrested in Dal- matia, Istria and Carnoiola- Dr. Pavi- cic was one of those arrested, herded with brigands, insulted by Hungarian soldiers and beaten with rifle butts. Many of his fellow prisoners lost their reason and he saw one hurl him. self from a train under the wheels of another which was passing. Thous- ands of Serbians, he declared, were taken for interment to Mostar, Her zegovina, to Ooboj, Bosnia and to .Arad, Hungary.
 Upon these unfortunates their jail. CTS inflicted peculiar punishment ac- cording to the narratives of two sur vivors related by Dr. Pavicic. One of these jailers at Mostar was char acterized in the speech as a "feroci- ous beast" who beat his prisoners with a hooked baton of iron which he called "Kromprinz" A priest named Tichy sfterward died at Arad, Hun- gary, as the result of the tortures this jailer inflicted.
 If those gathered at Mostar sur vived, they were transferred later to Arad where thousands of living skeletons were congregated from Bos- mia and Herzegovina" said the de- putty. Famished, naked, half-dead from the blows of rifles and bayonet thrusts they were driven to the case ments of the Arad fortress. In its subterranean corridors they died in masses from typhus.
 AS the days become colder" said Dr. Pavicic, they took clothing from the dead to clothe the naked. The number of deaths at Arad is estimat- ed at between 5000 and 4,000."
 At Doboj things were worse. Along with Serbian and Montenegrin pri- soners came crowds of civilian old men, women and children driven from home and forced to travel in open cattle trucks. Hunger was found to