PRIESTS KILLED.
A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT,
LONDON. January 8
The Belgian Legation has issued a reCord of maltreatment of members of tho Catholic clergy in Belgium, including .-.he-treatment of an invalid octogenarian at Buechcn, cabled previously. Ho was Recused of firing on tb© Germans and was thrown into a ditch, dragged through tho streets by the legs, and shot.
A priest at Gelrode was beaten with a rifle butt until tho blood dripped from him, and then shot and thrown in _o a river.
Twenty-six innocent priests were killed in the Malines Diocese, ten in Liege, twenty in Namur, and three in Tournai.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15173, 11 January 1915, Page 8
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PRIESTS KILLED.
Press, Volume LI, Issue 15173, 11 January 1915, Page 8
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