''We ourselves, at the outset of the war, received from a responsible
Serbian source this frank announcement: "We will extirpate the
Albanians." Now that this system of annihilation is being persisted in
without modification, despite all European protests, we deem it our duty
to reveal the designs of the gentlemen of Belgrade without more ado...
In this matter facts speak more loudly than any confessions could. Since
Serbian troops crossed the borders last autumn and occupied districts
there inhabited by Albanians, one blood-bath has followed another in
sequence. In isolated cases the conqueror may have been forced in
self-defence to proceed with all martial vigour against an Albanian
village from which his troops were perhaps fired on from behind. But to
raze hundreds of villages to the ground, to butcher tens of thousands of
non-combatants, men, women, and children, these are deeds which no
martial law, no precept of self-preservation enjoins..."