GERMAN METHODS
INDICTMENT BY BISHOP OF
SOISSONS.
Tho Bishop of Soissons, who was in Paris early in June, described the havoc wrought, in the bisphoric of Soissons during the recent offensive of the Germans. Ho said a hundred churches had been razed to the ground by the Germans and that at least- another hundred had beeai pilla-ged and partially demolished. , The famous cathedral in- Soissons suffered severely.
The Bishop added that the Germans knew neither faith nor law; tliey know nothing but war and .pillage. They were 'methodically stripping and carrying away everything. Women, children, and old men. had beet) brutally murdered by German aviators, who flow over and) with their machine, guns fired upon long lines of refugees on the country roads.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 21, 24 July 1918, Page 3
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123GERMAN METHODS Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 21, 24 July 1918, Page 3
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