WAR ON CIVILIANS
FURTHER GERMAN, DEVILRY,
(Published, in The Times.)
(Rec. Aug. 7, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 6. Mr Washibourn wires from headquarters on the Stokhpd, that the enemy's losses are extremely heavy, especially the Austrians.
Three new divisions, corrjsosed of many elements, have arrived. It is reported that one is from France.
Prisoners report that heavy • grnis "-t Kovel are being .taken away. German flyers liave inaugurated a campaign wh.:ch can only ibe characterised as pure They are l daily- flying low, .pouring machine gu.rt- fire into the panicstricken; populace. To-dayitihe toll of civil - ians was 11 killed and 40 wounded. The latest bombs are filled -with fragments of glass, killing women and children. The English hospital suffered severely. This, is an atrocious pi-actice.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 7 August 1916, Page 5
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