GERMANS CONTINUE THEIR RUTHLESS TACTICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15711, 11 September 1914, Page 6

GERMANS CONTINUE THEIR RUTHLESS TACTICS.

DESTRUCTION" OP BELGIAN' TOWN.

UNITED STATES URGED TO DECLARE WAR.

London, September 9. The destruction of Termode by the Germans was as ruthless as that, of Lonvain. Over a hundred buildings were destroyed either by artillery fire or by being burned down, the number including the Town Hall, the Museum, and the Palace of Justice. Only on one occasion did the enemy behave in a civilised manner. When the hospital was blazing they carried out the patients and placed them in safety. The soldiery pillaged the wins cellars and then rushed about the town in a drunken frenzy, killing women, children, and old men. The soldiers robbed those whom they did not murder. A Guardsman describes how in a recent fight Germans wearing Bed Cross badges drove up in what seemed to be an ambulance van It, however, contained a machine gun, with which they mowed down the British troops like grass.

Advices from New York state that Professor Bayard Hale, a leading educationalist of America, in a speech in New York advocated the United States declaring war on Germany for the latter's violation of The Hague Convention, particularly in regard to the use of floating mines and the destruction of Louvain. The United States should guarantee the. commerce of neutrals and the allied nations, leaving the British Fleet to do its separate work.

Lord Charles Beresford, addressing a recruiting meeting at Sheffield, said: "Germany will have to pay dearly for her savagery in causing the destruction of innocents by indiscriminate mine-laying She does not possess the chivalry of old-time buccaneers and filibusters, who respected women and children and did not fire on the Red Cross. - '