In spite of this appalling shortage of medical aid, I witnessed yesterday a most touching spectacle.  A car drawn by oxen brought to the hospital at Valievo its load of mutilated soldiers.  In the first portion of the car were three wounded Austrians and in the second two wounded Servians and two more Austrians.  The convoys wanted to carry the Austrian wounded to the dressing room before their own wounded.  A Servian doctor stopped them.

“Bring the wounded in in the order in which they come,” he commanded, and, without any regard for the nationality of his patients, the doctor and his colleagues commenced their humanitarian work.

What are the Red Crosses of the neutral countries waiting for?  Why do they not come here?  In the name of gallant little Servia, in the name of a humane and pitiful people, I make urgent appeal to the Red Crosses to send a portion of their staff here.  There are thousands of lives to be saved.

Now I must begin a chapter of sorrows.  I wanted to witness the Austro-Hungarian excesses a second time before speaking of them, so that I could give an exact and genuine account of actual facts.  Courage failed me to see all, but what I have seen can be summed up in one phrase.  In the environs of Shabatz the vanquished put the finishing touch to their acts of fearful savagery by butchering their Servian prisoners, whose corpses were found heaped up in the town.

Yesterday and the day before I ran across country through Valievo toward Drina.  Further north, barely forty miles from Valievo, at Seablatcha, the poor refugees who had fled from their houses before the onslaught of the Austrians showed me eight young people, tied one to another, who were all pierced by bayonets.

Five miles from there, at Bella Tserka, fugitives of the village with indescribable despair were burying the mutilated, bodies of fourteen little girls.  Six peasants were found hanging in an orchard.

At Lychnitsa, on the Drina, about a hundred old men, inoffensive civilians, were massacred before the eyes of their wives and children.  All the women and children were led over on the other side of the bank of the Drina in order to compel the Servians to stop their fire.

It is not war that Austria-Hungary tried to make on Servia.  That great nation wanted to exterminate the Servian people.  She thought she would succeed before Servia had time to defend herself.

Austrian prisoners affirm that they received orders to hang all those striving against their country, to burn all the enemy’s villages, and put all their inhabitants to death.

The Servian Quartermaster General is drawing up an official list of these Austro-Hungarian deeds.

The Attack on Tsing-tau

By Jefferson Jones of The Minneapolis Journal and The Japan Advertiser.