CRUCIFIED KITTEN.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16363, 7 November 1918, Page 5

CRUCIFIED KITTEN.

USED BY HUNS AS TRAP. Tho London "Morning Post" publishes tho following, stating that :t3 authenticity may be takun as unquestionable: —"During tho recent operations of the Allies it fell to tho Fourth British Army to reoccupy a town when i the Germans retreated Irom it. As our ! troops were makuig their way through the war-scarred streets of the town a group of then* were arrested by a sight that startled and shockcd oven men inured to the horrors of ivar. On a door of one of the houses a kitten was hanging by its fore-paws, which had been' nailod to the wood. Tho wretched creature, which might have been where it was found at least an liotir or two, was mewing piteously in its agony and struggling with its hind legs to release itself. With a natural instinct, of pity for a suffering animal, on© of the British soldiers rushed forward to release tho unhappy kitten. He pulled out tho nails that pierced its paws, but in th 0 moment that he did so there was a flash and a roar, and his mutilated and dismembered body was flung across the street. A hidden explosive charge had been set off by the withdrawal of the nails. The *ctreating Hun had laid his trap, and had baited it with tho kitten nailetl to the door, He calculated that such an appeal to British humanity would be irresistible ; and he was ligUt. ft