persons round a house and then set fire to the house, thus
burning the twenty-six victims.

At the same town the Austrians arrested five hundred
to six hundred women and girls and kept them at the hotel
for four days for the pleasure of the soldiers.

In the three districts of Polzerie, Matchva, and Yadar,
the various kinds of death and torture inflicted were appor-
tioned as follows:--

	Males	Females
Victims shot	345	64
Victims killed with knives	113	27
Victims hanged	7	6
Victims massacred and clubbed to death with sticks and butt-ends of rifles	48	2
Victims disemboweled	2	4
Victims burned alive	35	96
Victims pinioned and robbed	52	12
Victims whose arms were cut off, torn off or broken	5	1
Victims whose noses were cut off	28	6
Victims whose ears were cut off	31	7
Victims whose eyes were put out	30	38
Victims whose genital organs were mutilated	3	3
Victims whose skin was cut in strips, or portions of their face detached	15	3
Victims stoned	12	1
Victims whose breasts were cut Off	0	2
Victims cut in pieces	17	16
Victims beheaded	1	0
Little girl thrown to the pigs	0	1
Victims killed without the manner of their deaths being Specified	240	55

Summing up the evidence Professor Reiss says:--

The number of victims--children, women, young men,
and old men--amounts to a comparatively high percen-
tage of the population of the territory invaded. . . . Once
the bloodthirsty and Sadie brute was unchained and let
loose by his superiors, the work of destruction was duly
carried out by men who are fathers of families and probably
kindly in private life.

I add to this trustworthy account of the alleged
atrocities of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Servia
a description of the sinking of the Ancona, written by

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