THE HUNS IN BELGIUM.
SHOCKING OUTRAGE IN CHAR- * LEROI. Australian amd N-Z. Oable Association LONDON. June 23* M/Jodin, in the Ame Beige (Beligan Soul) periodical, secretly published in Belgium, describes the sequel to the trial of many civilians at Charleroi. The sentence was not announced to nineteen condemned men. Their families were summoned by telegraph and informed that six would he shot next morning 'and that perhaps their relative might be one of the six. They vainly implored to he allowed to know the truth and allowed to visit the prisoners. They wept and lamented-. The butchers desired the cells.to echo with the sobs and prayers of all connected, directly or indirectly, .with the sentences, . and to be compelled, to suffer while awaiting the morning s bloodshed. Wives and children stood all night at the prison gates, alternating between infinite despar and senseless hope. Dawn brought the certainty that the fusillade did its work. Only then the names ot the six-were announced.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4904, 25 June 1918, Page 5
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