GERMAN SAVAGERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 161, 10 July 1922, Page 5

GERMAN SAVAGERY.

OUTRAGES IN SILESIA. MALTREATMENT OF WOMEN. A REIGN OF BLACKGUARDISM. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1120 a.m.\ LONDON, July 0. Remarkable evidence of German savagery in I'pper Silesia is contained i" ; a dispatch from the "Times" correspondent at Oppeln. Three young girls, playthings of ; i mob in Beuthen. were strip- ' ped stark naked and forced to mount ! pillar-boxes and remain for an hour as targets for tilth and rubbish. Then their ' hair was cut off and they were branded on the face with letters I and A (Inter- ! Allierte). and limited through the ' streets. The disgusting spectacle was witnessed by 5000, who with the police ' took no action. Hundreds of women took to flight. A later dispatch describes the reign of . blackguardism, following the taking over of Oppeln by the German Schultzpolizei. A correspondent say three women stripped and rushed along by a jeering mob. Another iuob stormed a hotel, drairged out, stripped, and beat a girl in the presence of the British officers of the Inter-Allied force, who were powerless because they were instructed on no account to provoke a conflict with the population. The Polish Consul-Gcnerai asked the Allied troops to take prompt measures (o maintain order.—("Times.") ————————.—— .