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Show GREAT SERB REVOLT RUTHLESSLY CRUSHED Thousands Are the Victims of Wholesale Whole-sale . Hanging, Italian Report Declares. UDLNE, June 2 via Paris Fragmentary Frag-mentary news has already been received here through neutral countries of widespread wide-spread insurrectionary movements in Serbia. This news is now supplemented by the statements of Austrian prisoners prison-ers captured in the recent Italian advances ad-vances giving details of the merciless methods of repression used to crush the uprising. The insurgents were gradually surrounded sur-rounded by Austrian, German and Bulgarian Bul-garian regiments, and all who fell into their hands, chiefly old men, women and children, are declared to have been massacred. mas-sacred. In spite of this procedure, fierce resistance was offered for three weeks and heavy losses inflicted on the invaders, especially the Bulgarians. The insurgents finally succumbed to superior numbers and the Serbians were hanged by tho thousands. According to the prisoners, the Bulgarians Bul-garians were guilty of such atrocities, especially against "women and children that even their Austro-German allies termed them barbaric. |