RUHR ATROCITIES.
(Received April 28, 11:50 a.m.) PARIS, April 27
Martin Donohuo, in the "Daily Chronicle,?' says.: "An amazing letter is published from Corporal Max Zeller, who was fighting in Ruhr Valley, addressed to a nursino; sister.fin the, Reichswehr, how. in hospital, describe ing the first ". v figbt'; with the. Reds*. Zeller said thVt_ r no -quarter was to be given; and even the wounded were shot. ( Enthusiasm was immense, and only 'two of our battalion were killed. Three hundred Reds were killed, the wounded being finished off with butts, of- rifles ,or bullets. We shot 10 Red Cross sisters who were carrying revolvers. | They vainly cried for mercy, but it was a pleasure to shoot such hussies. • Anyone carrying weapons is killed."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9291, 28 April 1920, Page 5
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