AUSTRIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 23 November 1914, Page 5

AUSTRIA

AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES. SHAMEFUL SLAUGHTER OF SERVIANS. PEASANTS BURIED ALIVE. Received 23, 12.10 a.m. Paris, November 22. •Professor Reiss, of Lausanne 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, ahe Austrians forced 108 hostages at Lcclinitza to dig their own graves and though many were only wounded, the firing party immediately filled m the graves, burying many alive. Professor Reiss visited other villages, where 1148 civilians were killed, and 2280 disappeared. . ... ~ „■ The Viennese Press justifies the massacres, stating that the Servian population is always revolting. BRITISH PRISONERS THREATENED.

Received 22, 4.45 p.m. Venice. November 21. An official statement has been issued in Vienna that, owing to the wretched position of AnstroHungarians m England and elsewhere, the treatment of alien enemies in Vienna will he made much more severe, partieuarly in rspect of five hundred British.