Austria

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 279, 23 November 1914, Page 5

Austria

MODERN CATAPULT.

AUSTRIANS’ ENGINE OF WAR

AT BELGRADE.

Timkb and Stdnet Sun Sebvioh. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 21. Copenhagen reports that the Austrians outside Belgrade used a contrivance resembling a Roman catapult, throwing barrels filled with stones and explosives, with terrible effect, the stones splitting up into thousands of pieces. THOUSANDS MASSACRED. United Press Association. . Paris, November 22.

Professor Reiss, of Lausanna University, has concluded an inquiry into the Austrian atrocities in Servia. He states that Austrians massacred 4000 unarmed peasants in the Shabatz district, including women. The majority had been taken as hostages, but as it was impossible to send them to Austria immediately, they were hanged or shot. The Austrians forced 108 hostages at Lechnitza .to dig their own graves, and though many were only wounded, the firing party immediately filled in the graves, burying many alive.* Professor Reiss visited other villages, where 1148 civilians were killed, and i'2Bo disappeared. 4 The Viennese Press justifies the massacres, stating that the Servian population is always revolting.

TREATMENT OF ALIENS. Venice, November 21.. An official statement has been issued in Vienna that, owing to the wretched position of Austro-Hungari-ans in England and elsewhere, the treatment of alien enemies in Vienna will be made much more severe, particularly in respect of five hundred British. CIVILIAN POPULATION EXPELLED FROM CRACOW. (Received 8.40 a.m.) Rome, -November 22. The military governor of Cracow expelled the civilian population, and 50,000 Poles flod in all directions.