AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 117, 4 February 1918, Page 9

AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES

WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF SLAVS. Dr. 'JYesio Pavicic, tlie Jiigo-Slav Deputy, recently delivered a speech in rhe lleichsrath giving lilio most revolting details of tho iilrociiius committed by Austria, on Slavonio prisoners, of which Renter's Agency is enabled to give the purport. "At Ritka," lie said, "wo were taken to tlio railway station in a torrential downpour of rain, and crowded into the train with not an inch of' dry clothing upon us: then wo were kept in the filthy train three days and four nights, via Zagreb and Budapest, right away to Western Germany to Marburg. "At Mostar," said a survivor, ''the most terrible man was the gaoler, Gaspar Scholjer. Armed with a hooked baton of iron, which he called 'Kronprinz,, he visited his captives nil too ■ often, to strike them recklessly tvitit ! his Kronprinz on the head and shoulders. Hundreds died." : The number of deaths at Arnd is i estimated at between 3000 and 400 G. I At Uojob more than 8000 innocent vic- : thns met their deaths. The autocrat, of Bosnia, General ; Potiorek, had ordered all the Serbians j of Bosnia-Herzegovina to be removed I from the frontier districts. The in- , habitants of the village of Svice were all led away, young and old, and on /arriving at Mount- Rud were compelled to dig their own graves and to lie down quietly, each in his own. Many women lay down in their grave with children at the breast. The soldiers then shot them one after another, tho living putting earth over tho dead untii their turn came. It is said that General Potiorek him- ! self signed with his own hand 500 death warrants. The evacuated popu- ! lation of Istria died like flies from , hunger, cold, typhus fever, and other ; maladies. Over 10,001) deaths have I been recorded.