MORE BRUTALITY.
OFFICER TIED ON PARAPET. SWIFT BRITISH REVENGE. (Heuter's Telegrams.) (Received 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 13. A correspondent at British headquarters tells a story of the shameful conduct of the Germans on the Somme. A wounded English officer was brought into a German trench. The popular idea was to dispatch him forthwith, but ultimately a suggestion made by two officers was adopted, and the helpless officer was hoisted on to the parapet of the trench, and tied there, amid jeers, and informed, "Now you -will see what your cursed bombardment is like." The Germans descended into a dugout, where, the correspondent believes, they were bombed to death by British infantry, who stormed the place and rescued the British officer.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 167, 14 July 1916, Page 5
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