CRUCIFIED KITTEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1389, 22 November 1918, Page 2

CRUCIFIED KITTEN.

USED BY HUNS AS TRAP. The London Morning Post jmblishes the following, stating that its authenticity may be taken as unquestionable: “During the recent operations of tho Allies it fell to tho Fourth British Army to rooccupy a town when the Germans retreated from it. As our troops were making their way through the war-scarred streets of tho town a group of them wore arrested by a sight that startled and shocked even men inured to the horrors of war. On a door of one, of the houses a kitten was hanging by its fore-paws, which had been nailed to tho wood. The wretched creature, which might have been where it was found at least an hour or two, was mewing piteously in its agony and struggling desperately with its hind legs to release itself. With a natural instinct of pity for a suffering animal, one of the British soldiers rushed forward to release the unhappy kitten. He pulled out the nails that pierced its paws, hut in the moment that he did so there was a (lash and a roar, and his mutilated and dismembered body was flung across the street. A hidden explosive charge bad been set off by the withdrawal of the nails. The retreating Hup had laid his trap, and had baited if with the kitten nailed to the door. He calculated that such an appeal to British humanity would bo irresistible; and lie was l ight.