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AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES. SERBIANS MADE TO DIG THEIR OWN GRAVES,

POLICY OF EXTERMINATION

From

reliable Serbindurce

THE HONGKONG DAILY.

ON THE PIAVE LINE, THE FIGHTING AT ZENSON.

FLOW PRICEVAL CHDOWN

the ITALIAN ABBY.A

Only a

who led the storming

enemy's line at Zenson. brief bombardment, and shạn rushed the parapet, just then The Hungarians fought well for but there was no standing against: attack There was some active sibughter people were talking both in the assault and while the

ensiny fell back to the river. The enemy they had losses in killed, left on the ground were lino upon exceedingly heavy, and bis eramped posi fifty talked

Tagliamento de

tion along the bend of the river now fchaffantry would fail and where hinders his sending further forces across Everywhere the resistance is gallant and bian hopes, were vain But

stubborn, though everywhere the enemy pressure increasea. A

Reuter's Agency has received commnicag.of tion of reached"Groát

document, tha

Don Bec

the Britain showin systematic extermination people that is being carried on Provision of the riven the Italian resistance, the

ser are given of the frequent Serbian

ahdi

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There is sunshine over Venice, and the tion that the Austro-Hungarian authe defensive, and the men- whartonght their ritics are seeking to annihilate all Serbs. way back from the Curso are holding city Hes dreaming radiantly in its bath One of light and colour. It is a atiller city Dr. Treşiy Pavicic, the Jago-Blay their ground and counter-attackingju

of its population has left but there are Deputy recently delivered a speech in the such rector, among others, is that which than it was, for of late days a large part Reichsrath giving the most revolting embraces the region from the point just still gondolns moving about between the details of the catrocities, but its public tion the the Austro-Hungarian Press was south of Ban Sone di Piave, where the palace-walled shores of the Grand Canal, black abawled, nest shod wouen, tad the forbidden. A portion ut it, however, go Austrians threw their first bridge, to that and the Merceria has yet u. trallic of the into a bross paper After referring to the fact that even before the war there other point just north of the Treviso- pigeons on the Pinars are scarcely, lest It is not deserted or despairing so much was organised persecution and many Oderzo 1001way bridge, where, another numerous then in the date of tourists Serbs were done to death, he said that crossing was made, and the lands on the as breathlessly expectant of the futura. since the war the whole country has been right of the river penetrated by the encikriding an ear to the dull boom of the filled with groans. The very young and as far west as the small hamlet of for gun horth of the lagoon, which every A few seconds shake the windows, and pay, aged died of destitation and bugger. Fagare, g while the vigorous, competent,

Zenson, the scene of yet another crossing less attention wail of the steam alren courageous had been arrested, falsely ring is included in this one which is at the signal station which announces the cused, thrown into prison, ruined, con- demned, tortured, and executed. The now garrisoned on the Italian side by that approach of a Hun in an seroplane, Deputy doclared that at Spalato he and famous corps which formerly held the The general tone of those who vet remain military, official, and civilian others were herded together by hundreds northern Caroline from Faiti to

Castangevizza, and that other corps which alike, is one of hop tenacious bone and PHILATELIC with brigends of the worst type. He con was General Diaz's command in the Third stubborn confidence that the Piave line finued

Army. The ground on the west bank of will hold, and that Vemçe at last 16 to "A Rickn we were taken to the railway the river here upon which the enemy has bs denied to the invader. Innfar as this station in a torrential to enbuit of ruin established a footing was widest at lies with the navy and forces employed and crowded into Ultrain with not an Fagare, while their most formidable at the Piave mouth, assuredly all is being inch of rothing upon us then we thrust was at Zenson, where it will be done which courage and ingenuity can were kept in the train days and remembered, bey had made an effort to compies Between the Piave and the four nigowe Zaggen Hud-Bualpsit, orestes a regular bridgebend. Further Sile there is stretch of low grousd right away to Western Germany to houth stil, where they are in contact almost at sea level, a tangle of little Marburg, in Blthy cacghout with the marine forces, they had pressed drainage canals and tide-water pools, and bread, without sleep; ex to the in, to the line of the Sile, and, occupied, all it was across this that the southerpingst sults of the, Alagyar, rabic, struck with that bay of marshes which extends to the forers of the Austrians onder voured to the butt end of Magento Tiffes, and Porto di Curtellazzo, on the Adriatic maksiat way in order to gain a footing luxiously qurand by Magoldiers There is perhaps, nothing so disorderly on the long epit of land between the As During that hideous ajuntagrent

as in forga retreat, unless it be an ad lagoon and the Adriatic which lende down number of lost our rensbakhrid • Je pa w with my own eyes one borddiow: luel tance, in purgit, and there is ronson to to the Forts di labo, the front door of

tarak.that the Austrians have not keepver one himself from our train under the wheelated their organisation and f

*full lighting of another which passed full speed.

The fate of those shut ulet Moir Doboj, and Arad was the more ter rible, said Dr. Pavicic, who then proceed ed to give the narratives of two survivors one a publicist and the other deputy as follows+WA

efficiency as quick as the Italians have regained their capacity, for inactive defense. Now that the armies base one to a standstill the tale of that retreat begins to complete itself, and we learn more ample tail of the means by which the Austro-German advance was hampered' and the Italian reos shepherded to cafety due to

COVERING A FEIREAT

At Mostar we were thrown into under: 'ground cells with robbers, brigantis, and gipsies. There, on the toul soll, we were supposed to move, sleep, and cat. In pikk ae this den the most terrible man was the gaoler Gaspar Schelier. Armed with a hooked baton of iron, which he called Kronpring, he visited his partives all too often, fy strike them recklessly with hi Kronprinz the head and boulders 1 do not repost the bestial oursus, the satanic shouts of this monster. Only with money could one calia for a moment the fury of this Cer

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it was only when Cavazuccherina, yasi menaced that the Marines, fighting always, fall back to their present lines just beyond the village, and there stund of attempt after attempt by the Hungarians' to advance to the edge of the lagoon. The retirement, was full of strange and heroic incidents, ne one after another the infiltration parties of the enemy were diet with. It is from among the trapped among the cannis and hunt od down by the Marines that most of the prisoners come.

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Among the fighting elements which took glorious-parent tires are conspicu. And out the cavalry, the antoured cars, the Bersaglieri cyclists the divisions of cavalry which stock part all suffered heavily Apart from their dismounted work they mhanged to charge again and again with the sabre and the lancer Une regiment of light horso actually charged upon Austriant who had prepared to be receive them with machine-guns and Antong the unfortunaten was Randa despite their losses, teherged the guns and Radulovitch, editor of the Nation ay at the last minute bow the Austrian (Narod), and the Orthodox priest Tichy, machine gunuers, left their weapons and who died at Arad, Hungary, as a result rab as the horsemen bowled down on of all the tortures inflicted upon him by them. The armoured cars lived through this ferocious beast, who literally tore a series of private epics at cross roads, his flesh from him with his iren baton spending Hours and sometimes whole days He would come among his victims at motionless their crew's keeping case night and choose fresh subjects for less, weary lookout through the loopholes torture, Those who wished to prolong in the turret Three of them thus en this existence had to hold up their hands gaged discovered that they were cut off, and show how many banknotes they were and made their why at sixty miles an rendy to pay Hundreds

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figures show that The cyclists were those who fought from more than 8,000 innocent victims met house to house through one village after their death in this place

We another. There was not left a bridge nor General Potiorek, the autocrat of a culvert unbroken Engineers and Bosnia, had ordered all the Berblans of aeroplanes o-operated to make the Bosnia-Herzegovina to be removed from enemy's path a succession of traps, the frontier districts The inhabitants Upon the sector of the Piave which 1 of the village of Svice were all led away have mentioned fighting has been con young and old, and on arriving at Mount graves and to lie down, quietly, each in near Zenson. It is like the first day of his own. Many women lay down in their new war here, where the conditions are

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over in the attitude of the men They have one. He spoke of the Piave fitat and val of all packages are required Letail 20.

num that debonnair quality, the daredevil It must henceforth be the only river For Isther particulars, sailing dates, ste bonavicio;

of outrages, giving the names of touch, which belongs rather to new troops in Italy, he said, the only sweet water apply to victims with dates and localities. These than to these had-bitten veterans at which an Italian may slake his thirat. interned persons were shot with Signor Gabriele D'Annunzio told me that Tha Po the Tiber even we must know

owned machine-guns,

In the Save, and the wounded as had spoken with in the nothing of them The Mincio never burnt alive bound to bundles of hay hospitals were like the first gay and heard of it. It is the Playe which is our But the more usual method was At Zubac were hanged, without trial, 62 proud wounded of the earlier days of the secret stream, where we must assemble persons, at Tebinje 103, of whom 30 were that sent to death for the simple reason

The fighting near Zenson, which took they

were

notables at Foca. 71, at Tuzla shape on Saturday, was particularly 200. The whole Serbo Montenegrin Iron violent. The enemy forces consisted of a thor was turned into a desert. It is said number of battalions of Hungarians and that General Potiorek himself signed Dalmatians not previously identified and with his own hand 500 death warrants.

our mon included Grenadiers, the Catania Infantry Brigade, and the 21st Battalion

is stated that a few are remaining, what ever the fate of Venice From the ont lying villages on the lagoons and the coast refugees come pouring in, mostly in fish. ing boats and those focal craft whose sails are a feature of these waters.

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our strength, the power and passion of our resistance, our patriotism and our hate, so that never, never, never shall the ekorny cross this now and holy frontier into our holy land I am going there myself to-morrow, into the very front line. I must plunge both my hands into those

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of those special froops, volunteers for Austrians to welk in the Piazza of BULGARIA'S PLUNDER sheer fighting, and specially for storming San Marco! he cried "I cannot think duties who are called Arditi. They of it. It is egony. It is the ultimate According to a telegram from Bofis, the wear special uniforma grey sweater and horror, not alone for the fact of it, bist Premier, Dr. Radoslavoff, stated in the a short, double-breasted jacket and are for all that it signifes It must never Sobranje his intention in accordance trained in a manner that weeds out any with the Allies, to open pour parlers with but the strongest and most resolute Now if ever, we Italians must ex- Russia reply has been forwarded to When last I saw them practising the perience the resurrection of our great the Russian Government in this sense, storming of a hill barond Udine, moun.mortal gesture, one which shall thrill the tain guns were bursting real shell inst world. Rather than devote those stones He said

A proposal has been addressed to us over them and a Maxim and trench to the tread of Austria let sa are the now by the head of the Russian Govern mortar were tarning the affair into the city Let that beauty, that inspiration, ment M. Lenin, and the People's Com most real test I ever beheld. Every man perish in a fire whose glow shall illumine mitsary for Foreign Affaire. M. Trotsky of them is a highly-schooled specialist in the pages of your history for all time, We replied, fummediately that we were every weapon, from the bare hands to the Better that than surrender it ready to enter upon negotiations (Loud flame projector cheers.) Bulgaria could not reject this offer of peace, seeing that she has realised the national ideal for which she entered the war, namely, the unification of the Bulgarian nation in one kingdom, includ. ing Macedonia, the Morava country, and the Dobrudja, This will form the founda- tion for all our pourparlere

CANDIDATES FOR DEATH.

Few live long, and there is never any lack of volunteers to take their places, They speak of themselves jestingly as Aspiranti Cadaveri candidates for death. It was these who have never ceased to resent and question the retreat,

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