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| 414 | 568 |730 |1,875|1,261| 839 |1,018 | |Offences | | | | | | | | | | | |under | | | | | | | | | | | |Rubric 4. | | | | | | | | | | | |------------|----+-----+-----+------+------+----+-----+-----+-----+------| |Number of | | | | | | | | | | | |those | | | | | | | | | | | |convicted | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 46 | 48 | 22 | 17 | -- | |under | | | | | | | | | | | |Rubric 4. | | | | | | | | | | | |------------|----+-----+-----+------+------+----+-----+-----+-----+------+ |Number of | | | | | | | | | | | |those who | | | | | | | | | | | |committed | | | | | | | | | | | |Offences | 11 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 |116 | 179 | 89 | 89 | -- | |under Rubric| | | | | | | | | | | |4 and were | | | | | | | | | | | |acquitted. | | | | | | | | | | | |____________|____|_____|_____|______|______|____|_____|_____|_____|______| It may be of interest to give some details of one of the regiments whose composition was chiefly Slav. My informant, Dr. Ivo Yelavi['c], served as telephone officer on the staff of the 37th Dalmatian Regiment. At different times--at the fall of Gorica, in December 1916 at Sanmarco, and in June 1917 at Tolmein, three battalions went over to the enemy; 170 officers (of whom 169 were reserve officers) gave themselves up during the War. Some of them were Serbs, most were Croats. With respect to the fall of Gorica, this was not--despite the clamour that they made about it--due to the Italians, but to two officers, Tolja and Salvi, who took over with them all the plans of the underground forts and maps made to the scale of one step to a millimetre. Among the accomplishments which the officers of this regiment taught their men was how to surrender to the foe. Efforts were made to bring about a different state of things: German and Magyar regiments were placed behind it, with machine guns; the regiment itself was filled up with Magyars. On
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