| Show Austrian T Torture ort re of oE I Prison Prisoners rs' rs Rivals Hun HunI Hun I Horrors in Belgium B i I By United Press R ME Jul July 5 Horror Horror tales tales' that rival those which which come from froni Belgium are out of the district where Austrians have been fighting An Italian Ital Ital- ian soldier today rela related ted some some som of the terrible spectacles of his experience after he had had served in In the Austrian a army and later been taken talen prisoner by bythe bythe bythe the Russians He lie is now a m member of f I the Italian arm army where his his' sympathies sympathies' alwa always s 's have bave been I f fI I Ivas 1 was vas forced to take tale the oath of loyalty l to Austria A he said said- describing describing ing lug hi his hig Induction Into th the Austrian army When I took a medical examination examination exam exam- the doctor said Ah Ah Italian Italian sick are jou your you'll I know the cure cur the thene theone theone one ne cure cure fri for all you jou OU traitors ittle le lead pills administered through though the he nd sr 1 j Large Larger numbers were condemned for political reasons They weri were sent in groups into Galicia and throughout the I Journey were subjected to Insults and constant brutalities Sometimes thy they were shut in cattle trucks gu guarded by soldiers with fixed bayonets GUARDS DEFILE SOUP In this this this' ma manner er they Journeyed for weeks over over the Hungarian plains over the aid the lowlands beyond beyond beyond be be- I yond with nothing to drink except a amess amess' amess aniess mess mess' tin of dirty soup into which the guards spat for amusement Attached to Hungarian and German companies in the ratio of one man for each platoon pla pla- pia- pia toon they lived hideously in the front frontline frontline frontline line trenches treated as traitors in insulted insulted in- in suited and maltreated by their German and and Hungarian comrades f In fn n 1914 1914 at the time Ume of the Austrian defeat In Galicia two soldiers fa fatigued fatigued fatigued fa- fa from the tiring march fell fen out Y yen When en they got to camp field punishment punishment punish punish- punish punish-I ment was was ordered for them This Th's is a barbarous torture much practiced In Inthe th the tife Austrian army A stick is fixed in the ground and has a pulley puney fastened to the t top op P The victims victim's hands are bound behind his b back ck and a cord passing over the pulley puney hoists him up P until he e is standing on the tips I S of ii hs s I to toes s. s There he hi hiis is left Only the th strongest endure it for foi long I stood it two hours my second time Ume T TAt At Trent the f famous martyr B Bat Bat- t- t was tied to a part cart and dragged through ugh the rile cit city Officers spat on hi him n nand and and their wives vi Jabbed him with hat ha pins and umbrellas A Czech soldier moved by the sight shouted Long live live Battisti long live liberty I He was at at lat once arrested and shot Bat- Bat was hanged Today Today the the manhood of the Trentino Tren- Tren tino is destroyed Only two months after the ou outbreak break of the war Ithe the Austrian Austrian Aus Aus- l trian government found it necessary to toas as assure asuro Ure the people that only only- 1 14 11 per cent of Italian had been killed L LAW W DE ED r- r sP i n eh ft t t high rate Jn in defiance of of the law law- classes classes' which could not b be called caned up in In other sections of Austria were vere called In thi this district Even the the the- women were and sent to work in the trenches where m many ny of f them were killed Mono 1 than than of our people a a third of ot the population tion have ha be been n Interned At Aldena a village In the Lag I rina v valley the major II In ip command command- was in the habit of making the women women who had remained pass In line across the square He chose the one that pleased him best best and d if she did not submit she was was glyen giyen yen twenty five lashes and then int interned TORTURED Damiano Chios ran ri old schoolmate of mine to death was placed In front ofa firing squad and tortured for ten minutes while the command to fire Ire was was was' withheld Wounded and discharged soldiers are interned and the separation al allowances allowances allowances al- al are their families It It is conviction our that unless we smash Austria Austri th the strongest claim of ofa a dominant race right of tyrannizing tyrannizing tyran tyran- over the world will be made good J L. L |
