INHUMAN GERMAN METHODS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 19 November 1917, Page 5

INHUMAN GERMAN METHODS.

brutal ill-treatment of YOUNG ALSATIAN GIRLS. GRANTED TARDY RELIEF. Received November 19, 9.0 a.in. BERNE, Nov. 18, The Gazette Do Lausanne says the Germans forced many hundreds of young Alsatian girls to do heavy military work a.t the front, and dealt severely with those refusing. Now that. Germany feels the hour of reckoning is approaching, the Berlin Government announces that all girls under 17 will be liberated, and moral and religious training will be provided for those employed.

THE KAISER’S BLASPHEMY

Received November 19, 9.0 a.m. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 18. The Cologne Gazette’s war correspondent states that the Kaiser, addressing the troops on the Tagliamento, denounced Italy’s treason to the Triple Alliance, and declared tho success of tin l Austro-Gennan invasion had greatly surpassed all calculations, showing that a higher power than man must have participated in tho enemy’s terrible collapse. THE WAR IN VAIN. IF MIDDLE EUROPE REMAINS PART OF GERMANY. Received November 19, 8.30 a.m LONDON. Nov. TB. Lord French, in an introduction to Major Mofall’s book. "Germany a.t Bay,” says: "Nobody should remain ignorant of the fact that if Middle Europe comes out of the peace as part of the German Empire, the war has Been fought in vain. If such a catastrophy befall, we will have to wipe out tho stain on oiv valour and sanity in another great war.”