BEYOND THE LIMITS OF WAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15728, 1 October 1914, Page 8

BEYOND THE LIMITS OF WAR

ROYAL VANDALISM. ;

PILLAGE BY CROWN PRINCE Paris, September 29. Tho newspaper Journal Dc-s DeI bats states that during the stay of the Crown Prince at Champaubert Chateau he took the jewels, medals, and ikons, pillager! the famous archaeological collection, and ordered the. furniture, pictures, and tapestries to be destroyed.

DESTRUCTION AT RHEIMS. DISCOVERY IN CATHEDRAL. Bordeaux, September 29. j It is officially announced that all the roofing of Rheims Cathedral was burned, while many of the stained glass windows were broken. The upper part of the northern tower was seriously damaged, the sculptural decorations and statues being damaged beyond hope of repair, while the stonework inside was generally damaged. A Geneva paper states that a great quantity of straw and tins of petrol were found in tho top of the towers of Rheims Cathedral, indicating an intention to burn the building. .

OUTRAGE TO HUMANITY. BOMBS ON OPEN TOWNS. New York, September 29. The Tribune denounces the Zeppelins dropping bombs upon open towns as an outrage to humanity and against all notions of civilised combat. Germany has only a narrow chance of being absolved by the United States for this action.

USE OF DUM-DUM BULLETS. SERVIAN ALLEGATIONS. Nisr, September 29. • An official communique reports that tho Servian commanders concur in showing that the enemy is everywhere employing explosive bullets. The first ten discharges from Maxims are always explosive bullets, while 20 per cent, of the Austrian soldiers' ammunition con-J sists of dum-dums. Austrian soldiers are stringently l enjoined not to allow such munitions to fall into Servian hands, and are ordered to search the Austrian wounded and dead closely for all explosive bullets carried. j

EXTORTED CONFESSIONS. GERMANS SEEK EXCUSES. (Received September 30. 11 p.m.) Ostexd, September 29. At A lost, in Belgium, the Germans arrested 26 civilians and forced them to sign a confession that the inhabitants fired on the Germans. During the; lighting Germans compelled 40 civilians to walk ahead of the troops. Several were killed by tho Belgians.