BURIED WITH THEIR BABIES.
SERBIAN WOMEN SHOT. Sydney, March 0. Sir Charles Wade, Agent-General, in writing to the Premier that, oil behalf of New South Wales, he had allotted £470 to the Serbian Relief Fund and CIOO 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-Croats "by halter, bullet, and bayonet, dungeon, deportation, imprisonment, and evacuation; by court-martial, famine, concentration camps, and by intentionally-in-duced 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 shot tliem one by one. The survivors had to fhovel earth upon the dead until it came to their turn to ho rl;c/, and then graves were filled in uy soldiers. In one village a priest was hangee as a hostage, and in another the soldiers h-ove Cue inhabitants at the point of the bavoiiet into the court yard of the school, and shot them down like'rabbits a h»t.sie. Other people <vere drownfd, and another lot were tied to haystacks, which were set on fire. Many of these innueent victims remained unburied for weeks, and their eyes were picked out by ravens. Evacuated Mrians died in thousands like flies of hunger, cold, spotted typhus, and other diseases.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1918, Page 6
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246BURIED WITH THEIR BABIES. Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1918, Page 6
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