THE HUNS' ATROCITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2479, 4 June 1915, Page 7

THE HUNS' ATROCITIES

9 A SOLDIER'S OPINIONS. Some idea of the feeling of the people of England towards the Germans may be gathered from a letter received recently by Mr. H. G. Hill from the head of his company in Bristol, Major A. E. M. Norton, L.S.O. As his rank and decoration show, Major Norton writes not. as a civilian unused to war, but ns an old campaigner. His letter runs:—"lf you people in New Zoaland realised for one minute ivhat hell hounds and monsters these Germans are, I guess you would never speak to one of the same nation again. You are all too good to the swine out vour side. lam not Eaving all this because. of what I have read in the paper, but from what I have seen in the hospitals here, and heard from personal friends who have been'eye-wit-nesses of deeds that South Sea Islanders of 100 years ago would have shuddered at. 1 have myself seen men with both hands chopped off, men who have had their eyes gouged out. And the atrocities committed on young girls and infants would have made "Jack the Ripper" faint. You cannot for-one moment imagine one-hundredth part away out there what we do here. If you did .vou would not wonder why everyone is willing to sacrifice everything and anything so long as it will speed tlio end of this diabolical nation."