A NEW FIELD OF HORROR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2727, 23 March 1916, Page 5

A NEW FIELD OF HORROR

DREADFUL STORY FROM SERBIA By Telcgrapli-Press Association-Copyright London. March 21. las ' Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Rome states that' the, Allies aro I Shortly to publish evidence and documents proving Austria and Bulgaria guSty, of massacres in Serbia, exceeding those of the Turks in Armenia, M. Pasitch (Premier of Serbia).has communicated to Italy ,and tho Pope testimony showing that there were 700,000 victims. Whole districts were thus depopulated. The Austrians made prisoners of women, children, and old men in the. churcnea. They stabbed fiiem with the bayonet or suffocated them by asphyxiating gas. Three thousand were suffocated in one church. Serbian refugees report seeing Germans and Austrians distribute among the Bulgarians machines for producing ftas ari3 instructing them in their use. The Bulgarians suffocated many. The Austrians employed similar means in i.iontenegi'o.

BANNED LUXURIES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ' London, March 21. A decree has been issued prohibiting Hie import of luxuries, also spirits, except brandy and rum.

THE GUARANTEE TO BELGIUM

HER VOICE AT THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright London, March 21. Sir_Edward Grey (Secretary of State for .Foreign Affairs) stated in the House of Commons that Great Britain, France and Russia during the past few weeks had given a guarantee that Belgium would participate in peace negotiations; also that hostilities would not cease. until Belgium was politically and economically reinstated, and largely indemnified for the wrongs done her.