(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) BRUTAL MASSACRES
SWORN STATEMENT BY 'AN EYE-WITNESS. LONDON, 22nd September. The Daily Chronicle^ says an eyewitness has sworn a statement which reveals that the most brutal massacres were perpetrated at Tamines, half-way between Namur and Charleroi, Belgium. Only one house in the town was not burnt. The Germans selected 432 of the inhabitants, and gave them time for confession, and then killed them with mitrailleuses, tho number including the aged burgomaster and the two young daughters of a prominent citiaen. The rest of the inhabitants were forced to bury their fellow citizens.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 74, 24 September 1914, Page 7
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94(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) BRUTAL MASSACRES Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 74, 24 September 1914, Page 7
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