GERMANY'S BLOODY RULE.
PRIEST TORTURED AND SHOT. Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent forwards a report from 'Les Nouvelles/ at Maastrich, to the effect that the Germans shot seven Belgians at Liege on July 12, including the commission*! - of police and a priest. The latter was thrice starved for threo days in order to force him to speak. His assistant was tortured and forced to drink a drug terribly afflicting his nerves. Both refused to betray their comrades. One of the chiefs of the German spies in Belgium was assassinatfed on July 20.
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Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 74, 20 September 1917, Page 6
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90GERMANY'S BLOODY RULE. Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 74, 20 September 1917, Page 6
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