ABUSE OF THE RED CROSS

GERMANS WHO DID NOT PASS AN ORDEAL. SHORT SHRIFT. PARIS, 15th October. When the French entered Amiens the cavalry overtook a Red Cross convoy with forty-eight medical officers. The general welcomed the prisoners, and promised to send them to Geneva to be exchanged for French medical Officers. When the convoy was searched, arms and ammunition and a quantity of explosives were found, and the Red Cross men explained that they carried arms for self-protection. The French general accepted the explanation, saying, "Your army has strange customs." That evening the French medical officers entertained the prisoners, and the conversation turned on the treatment of wounds. The French doctors noticed that a num-, ber of the Germans were strangely silent, and communicated their suspicions to the French general, who ordered each to be privately asked some simple questions on niedical science. Five passed the ordeal, but the sixth was utterly ignorant. Finally a committee of French doctors convicted eleven of misusing the Red Cross. They were shot at daybreak. HOSPITAL SYSTEMATICALLY SHELLED. PAJRIS, 14th October. The Germans systematically shelled 4he Red Cross hospital at Braisne, near >W Sons, and killed two British nurses. The Germans .destroyed nine hundred out of twelve hundred houses.