75,000 workinen, reduced to poverty by the deliberate destruc- Unspecified.. Various places. SERBIA Frequent tortures--before murder; tearing out eyes, cutting off Beaten and hung up. Carried out in prisons and in military quarters Bastinado most frequent of the tortures.. Men hung up by the feet; heavy weights fastened to feet; Woman undressed and nailed to the ground.. Man hung on tree by feet--then set on fire... 30 women (wives of priests and schoolmasters) beaten. The President of Society of Ladies of that town beaten. Even pregnant women beaten; torture also applied; stripped and subjected to other outrages Families compelled to witness executions of relatives.. Leading inhabitants forced to do degrading tasks. Women in mourning forced to dance the kolo in the very place Lined up women, insulted them, and spat in their faces. German authorities. Prokouplié. 4.-DELIBERATE STARVATION OF CIVILIANS Civilians compelled to march in front of Austro-Hungarian troops 1917. N. W. Serbia. GREECE Systematically organized by the Bulgarians. Nearly 40,000 victims among Greek population 1916-1918. Eastern Macedonia. Bulgarian authorities (sev- Greek Memorandum, pp. 7, 8. eral names known) 6.-ABDUCTION OF GIRLS AND WOMEN FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENFORCED PROSTITUTION. GREECE Great number of Greek women sent to Bulgaria for prostitution. 1916-1918.. age, sent to A great number of Greek girls and women carried off and locked up in Turkish harems. A great number of Greek children carried off and distributed among Turkish houses A great number of Armenian women, girls and children locked 1914-1918... up in harems and converted by force to Mohammedanism Several localities on Turk- Turkish authorities. ish territory Several Turkish provinces and especially Armenian vilayets. 1916-1918... 1914-1918... Annex viii, p. 23. 9.-FORCED LABOUR OF CIVILIANS IN CONNECTION WITH THE MILITARY OPERATIONS OF THE ENEMY, AND OTHERWISE. BELGIUM 1915 June 1915.. Sweveghem. Unsuccessful attempts to make workmen at the Central Arsenal April-May, Luttre. resume work: 3 persons imprisoned; 190 workmen sent to Germany Similar incidents in other localities. FRANCE That French civilians were subjected to forced labour under severe hardships is clear from the two following documents:1. A proclamation ordering the inhabitants (men, women, July 20, 1915.. Holnon (Aisne). and children) to work in the fields every day, including Sundays, from 4 A.M. to 8 P.M., with a total break of 2 hours, making 14 hours' work. "Idlers" were to be beaten if they were children, and to undergo 6 months' imprisonment after the harvest if they were women Greek women compelled by Bulgarians to work in fortification 1917-1918. works SERBIA. Ordered to carry munitions and provisions to the front, dig 1915-1918. People taken at a distance; long spells of labour; had to find their own food Old men, women and children also compelled Demir-Hissar. p. 23. Bulgarian authorities. Greek Memorandum, p. 10. Various places in Serbia.. Rapport de la Commission Interalliée, p. 33. Memorandum of Polish Delegation, Prevented the population from organising themselves to maintain order and public security. Aided the Bolshevist hordes that invaded the territories ROUMANIA Institution of German civil courts to try disputes between sub- SERBIA Proclaimed that the Serbian State no longer existed, and that Serbian territory had become Bulgarian Serbian law, courts, and administration ousted... Taxes collected under Bulgarian fiscal 1égime.. Serbian currency suppressed. Public property removed or destroyed, including books, archives Prohibited sending Serbian Red Cross to occupied Serbia.. Museums belonging to the State (e. g., Belgrade, Detchani) were emptied and the contents taken to Vienna Memorandum of the Roumanian Dele- Bulgarian authorities. Official orders show efforts |