GERMAN ATROCITIES

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15172, 9 January 1915, Page 10

GERMAN ATROCITIES

TO THE EDITOR OF "iDB TRESS." Sir,—You printed, some days ago, a letter from mc asking for evidence of the eu .ting-off of the hands of Belgian children by German soldiers. Though no reply has been publicly made, so far as I know, I have received information privately from several people that they have such evidence. I have also read over the report of the Belgian Commission, and some very horrible accounts by refugees and others published with the' report. The report itself does not mention this -particular form of barbarity, aiid only one or two of the pub-ll-bcd accounts refer to it at all. .

I am informed by a gentleman who has just returned from Home, and has had ample opportunity of judging, that the cases of dismemberment among children and . non-combatant adults are probably due rather to the indiscriminate shelling of civilians, with consequent amputations, than to the cold-blooded and deliberate policy of rendering the male population unfit- to fight in future wars. i suppose, from the evidence, that in a few cases this crowning atrocity has been committed, and the story of the German brutalities is so hideously revolting and abominable that even* the addition of this one would not seem to make it much worse. —Yours, etc.. ARNOLD WALL. Canterbury College, January Bth.