GIRLS HANDS AND FEET CUT OFF.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1915, Page 9

GIRLS HANDS AND FEET CUT OFF.

■ ■ WHAT AN AMERICAN" WAR COBKESPOXDEKT SAW. Mr. Alexander Powell, war correspondent of the "<New York World,"' addressed the American Club at a luncheon party at Ottawa recently.. His stories of German atrocities witnessed by himselt created a profound impression on his audience, who included members of the Cabinet, military men, and several other prominent people, including Sir Wilfrid Laur-icr. In one case a man and his son wcr<? dragged out of their house and bayoneted in the presence of the mother and daughter as revenge for the killing of a , : -Uhlan who was really shot by a Belgian soldier. Mr. (Powell said:—" I counted (twenty bayonet wounds on the face and I neck of the father. 1 helped to bury the ! victims." A fleeing woman, carrying a baby, was overtaken, and the baby shot. He also himself entered a cottage, and (saw a girl, still alive, with both hands j land feet cut off. He said he felt it bis duty to make these facts public, as he found many in Canada" <and the States who were not willing to believe the reports of atrocities. He said he wshed to impress on Canadians that a long and hard fight was ahead. "It will be a terrific struggle," said Jlr. Powell, " to drive the Germans back upon their own soil, but you've put your hand to the plough, and there should be no turning back til] the farrow is completed." ,