ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE OF GERMAN BARBARITIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15717, 18 September 1914, Page 6

ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE OF GERMAN BARBARITIES.

REVOLTING MUTILATION OF A BRITISH NURSE.

PILLAGE AND DESECRATION OF A BELGIAN CATHEDRAL.

London, September 16.

During an attack at Evelvorde the Germans cut off the breast of Grace Hume, of the Dumfries Red Cross Nurse Hospital. Nurse Hume died in great agony. She had prevented a German soldier shooting a wounded man who shot a German dead.

Advices from Antwerp state that Brandenburg troops slaughtered '\ Q V civilians at Soignies, in Southern Belgium, on the ground that rifles were found in some houses, despite the fact that workmen in the Liege district take rifles from the factories to finish them in their homes. Buch rifles are minus breech mechanism, and arc without

ammunition.

Lou ibo Mack, Antwerp correspondent of tlie Evening News, describes the horrors of Aerchot. In the cathedral, on tho high altar, were many empty wine and beor bottles. The offertory box was stolen and replaced by a beer bottle. Bottles and filth were everywhere. Tin' Madonna's head was cut off, and a large crucifix was burnt. The altar brocades were slashed, pictures chopped from their frames, and a d'-aJ pig lay on one side of the chapel. These deeds were the work of drunken soldiers. Street after street in Acrschot was destroyed and lay in blackened ruins.

At the chemists' shops the Germans mixed all the drugs together. They shot the. burgomaster's two children. A German colonel was phot in the burgomaster's servant's room from the outside of the buildin?, it is supposed by the girl's sweetheart. The girl and her lover werf instantly executed.

When the Germans approached Soissons the military authorities ordered the civil officials to leave. In their absence the Germans began pillaging the houses. Madame Machered, presenting herself to the commanding officer, said: "You may consider me the Mayor of Soissons, and ask me for anything you want." Pillaging then ceased.

PnigniM is in Belgium, 10 miles northeast of Mons. Acrsehot ia Mbifited in Belgium, nine miles northeast of Leuvain

GERMAN COMMANDER AT LOUVAIN A CAPTIVE.

NOT TO BE TREATED AS PRISONER OF WAR.

Wellington, September 17.

The High Commissioner reports from London on September 17 that the Belgians have refused to treat as a prisoner of war Command a?it Mouno, who commanded the Landsturm at Louvain. He is now in the criminal prison at Antwerp, and will be tried by courtmartial for gross infractions of tha laws of war.