GENTLE GERMANS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 84, 28 April 1916, Page 3

GENTLE GERMANS.

THKIR GLOSSARY OK TERMS. "We have just had news of the nillago of our Chateau de la Gourdes Pre>, at Rumigny (Ardennes)," writes a voting French girl to a Sydney friend, ''through, a route-book found upon a German soldier, which has just been ..published with many others, by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in an official pamphlet entitled "Violations of War Laws by Germany." Yon will find the, pillage of our poor house on page 88. I havo outlined it in blue.

"The notebooks found upon the dead or captive Germans are photographed and translated into French. On each page you will find an account which will enlighten you as to how the barbarians have behaved in our country.

"To- render your reading clearer—for you are not likely to bo conversant with "the vocabulary of these gentlemen—[ must warn you that in their hooks the terms pig, sow, sucking pig, mean men, women and children (when tlioy are applied to the French). "So that when you are reading on page 97, for example, after the account of a massacre of our men and women, whose corpses formed a high heap, 'the little pigs ran about squealing and looking for tlieir mothers,' you will know that they meant the children of the poor dead women. And on page 12-1, where it relates that 'at Longemont. a fine chateau, in a room, on a l'ersian carpet, is a sow with its throat, cut, and on the bed a sucking pig with its throat cut, too!' you must understand that it is merely the German's artistic way of relating the assassination of a woman and her child."