BURIED WITH THEIR BABIES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16159, 13 March 1918, Page 2

BURIED WITH THEIR BABIES.

SERBIAN WOMEN SHOT

Sir Charles Wade, Agent-General for New South "Wales, in writing to the Premier that, on lie!::'i of New South "Wales, he had allotted £170 to the Serbian*. Relief Fund and £100 to the Montenegrin Red Cross and Relief Fund, enclosed the copy of a speech by a Serbo-Croat Deputy in the Austrian Parliament, exposing -the horrors perpetrated on Serbo-Croats, Austrian subjects, with the sanction of the Austrian Government/' The speech referred to the systematic extermination of Serbo-Cronts "by halter, bullet, and bayonet, dungeon, deportation, imprisonment, and evacuation; by court-martial, famine, concentration camps, and by intentionallyinduced disease."' Serbs were compelled to dig their own graves and lie down in them. Many women lay in their graves with their children in their arms. The soldiers I shot them -one by one. The survivors had to shovel earth upon the dead until I it came to their turn to be shot, and then the graves were filled in by soldiers. In one-village a was hanged as a hostage, and in another the soldiers dnno the inhabitants at the point of the bayonet into the courtyard of the school, and shot them down like rabbits in a battue. Other people were drowned, and another lot were tied to haywere set on fire. Many of these ;unocent victims remained unn uned for weeks, and their eves were picked out by ravens. ... ■ Istrians 'lied in thousands like flies of hunger, cold, spotted tvphu?, iuiu other diseases.