CONFIRMATION OF ATROCITIES BY GERMANS.
AMERICAN INTERVIEW WOUNDED FRENCH SOLDIERS CRUELTIES TO WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS. 'Received Ootober 1, 1.15 a.m.)' New loek, September 30. Mr. Homro Copland, who is now officially employed by the American Embassy in London to assist stranded Americans on the Continent, has written to Mr. Harold Sewell, ex-Vice-Consul at Liverpool, giving the results of conversations which he ha<j had with many wounded French soldiers. "I set down the reports of German atrocities as hysterical exaggerations," he said, "but oae soldier after another told what he had seen, including cruelties to women <ii.d young girls. They gave circumstantial details which could not be invented by a man lying at the point of death "All said that corpses had been maltreated. Women were constantly seen after the Germans had evacuated towns and villages with their bodies not wounded with bullets but with swords and bayonets." 1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15728, 1 October 1914, Page 7
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