GERMAN BRUTALITY AT QUENTIN

Nelson Evening Mail, 14 May 1917, Page 5

GERMAN BRUTALITY AT QUENTIN

GERMAN BRUTALITY AT .ST. QUENTIN. CHILDREN FLOGGED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, May 12. Commandant Gloss, administering 25 communes in the St. Quentin region, issued; a decre e in 1915 which has just been discovered, compelling all .wprknvnv "and children over 15 to work in !>•?• fields seven days a week. Idlers' V ei-e to be punished with six months' imprisonment and allowed only bread and water every third day. Children shirking work were flogged. The commandant reserved the Tight to administer 20 strokes a day to all labourers shirking. The decree concluded by stating that labourers in the commune of Vendelles had been severely punish ei. ZEEBcRUGOE BOMBARDED'. FROM SEA AND AIR. and N.Z. Cable AasociatiorO AMSTERDAM, May 12. There was an extensive aerial bom bardment o'f Zeebrugge at 3 o'clock on •Saturday morning, and subsequently a heavy naval bombardment, lasting 90 minutes. Terrific explosions shook the surrounding country. SUBMARINE SHEDS BLOWN T7<P. (Bee. Ivlay 14. 12.30 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, .May 13. British bombs Wew up two submarine sheds at Zeebrugge, and 63 German sailors and soldiers were killed 1 and 100 wounded. G/ER3IAN REPORT. '(Rec. May 14, 12.30 -p.m.) * LONDON, May 13. A Berlin official message says : "Enemy monitors shelled Zeebrugge on Saturday in the fog at long range. There was little damage, and no casualties. ' . ' .' GERMAN VERSION. ? (Rec. May 14, 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, May 13. Berlin's version of the bombardment of Zeebrugge state that monitors fired at great distance and batteries, forced their withdrawal with slight material damage and no victims. : FURTHER BOMBARDMENT. ■_[ ."- (Rec. May 14. 1.35 p.m.) '"""■■■srs< LONDON, May 13. : The. Admiralty reports' that a, further portion of our Dover forces heaVily bombarded Zeebrugge, the Naval Air Service co-operating. '.. '.. '. Nine enemy aeroplanes were" brought down; and two-of oura are missing.: