THE TALE OF OUTRAGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15729, 2 October 1914, Page 6

THE TALE OF OUTRAGE.

A FRENZY OF RAPINE. j GERMANS' EXCESSES. Xew York, September 30. Mr. Homro Copland, who is officially employed by the American Embassy in London to assist stranded Americans on the Continent, has written to Mr. Harold Sewell, ex-Yice-Consul at Liverpool, giving the results of conversations which he has had with many wounded French soldiers. The first part of his statement appeared in the Herald yesterday.

Mr. Copland asserts that after the conquest of Liege the German soldiery, so long baffled and starved,' became maddened by alcohol, and fell upon Belgium in a frenzy of rapine, rape, mutilation, and lust. His statements have provoked an extraordinary outburst of public anger, all the greater because Mr. Copland carefully' distinguished between the sabotism of a section of the soldiery and mere sex excesses. He refers to the Jaek-the-Ripper crimes as a parallel, and states that the whole of Belgium has been given over to the passions of maddened men.

THE DAMAGE AT RHEIMS. TOTALS SIX MILLIONS. Paris, September 30. The American Consul at Rheims estimates that the damage- to the town represents £6,000,000. Unless fighting be removed from the district in a week the champagne crop will be lost. It promised to be especially good this season.

LOOTING BY OFFICERS. BOOTY UNDER RED CROSS. Paris, September 30. It is officially stated that German officers looted silverware and jewels at Compiegnc. They loaded them in waggons, upon which they hoisted the lied Cross flag.