"WE TOOK NO PRISONERS"
BLOOD-LUST REVEALED IN GERMAN LETTERS. By Telegraph.—Press Association—CoßTrl»hi London, October 24. The French Embassy issues the text of a letter found on a German body, stating that when, the Germans captured a French trench on September 14 it was "so crowded that it seemed full of fleas. We took no prisoners. One has got to finish off this vermin. It was a most bloody affair." A second letter, on another body, confirms the former one , in. its account of the same affair. "We bayoneted the lot. I showed no mercy. These filthy French must be stamped out. They must either sign peace or all be killed." BRITISH SERGEANT'S ESCAPE. (Sec. October 25, ' 9.30 p.m.) n Paris, October 25. A sergeant of the Leicestershircs, lying wounded after a retirement, saw th<3 Germans bayoneting tho wounded men. Ho feigned death, and the marauders wcro content with stealing his watch.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2602, 26 October 1915, Page 6
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151"WE TOOK NO PRISONERS" Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2602, 26 October 1915, Page 6
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