WAR ON NON-COMBATANTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15737, 12 October 1914, Page 8

WAR ON NON-COMBATANTS

INSCLT TO ARGENTINE. VICE-CONSUL MURDERED. SATISFACTION DEMANDED. (Received October 11, 7.20 p.m.) Buenos Aires, October 10. Messages from Amsterdam state that the Germans at Dinant shot Himmcr, the Argentine Vice-Consul, on his own doorstep, as well as 20 of his workmen, although they were all unarmed. The Argentine flag was tin-own into the street. The public are incensed at the Argentine Government's delay in obtaining satisfaction. SHELLS FALL LIKE HAIL. ■ ON DEFENCELESS TOWNS, PURPOSELESS SHOOTING. Times and Sydney Sun dervu'os. London, October 9. A war correspondent .observes that German shells fall like hail without any military object in a useless bombardment of the evacuated towns of Tirlemont, Louvain, Dinant, Malines, and Termonde. The enemy are wrecking isolated farm-houses and cottages with scores of heavy shells where a few sticks of dynanite would have sufficed.

VILLAGERS INCINERATED. MERCILESS GERMANS. BELGIAN CONVENT ATTACKED. London, October 9. A pocket-book belonging to an officer, of a Saxon regiment which has been found, contained particulars of German outrages. A cyclist at the village of Guydoshus pretended 'to have been shot at; For this the village was set on fire, and all the ] inhabitants were thrown into the i flames. At Leppes 200 were killed.The writer states that the commander was Responsible, and could have prevented the pillaging and destruction. ' . . • • The Ursuline Convent at Londerzeel, near Malines, where 56 nuns were nursing hundreds of wounded, was shelled and destroyed. One shell burst in a ward, killing seven. The less seriously wounded fled, while others sheltered in the : cellars. Suddenly the building burst into flames, when Belgian soldiers dashed in and rescued the occupants. '" /. % ;■-■ •. ..' (- PRAYER FOR KING PETER, A BRAVE PRIEST. - HANGED BY AUSTRIAN'S. V (Received' October 11, 7.20 p.m.) ,'f I Petrograd, October 10. *: It is stated that Austrian officers, during service in the Shabatz Gather dral, ordered the priest to pray for the Austrian Emperor, Francis Josef. When he recited the usual prayers for King Peter of ■ Servia ■ the :Austrians hanged the priest.> . ':-. ,: f

AMERICAN'S REPORT. ' OUTRAGES IN , VOSGES. "ABOMINABLE ATROCITIES." • (Received October 11, 7.30 -p.m.) '■"■ ;: Paris, October lb. 7 Mr. Ohoetirn, a San Francisco lawyer, who visited the villages in the Vosges, has furnished a terrible report of German barbarities; which were inflicted on civilians of all ages and sexes. Abominable atrocities were perpetrated on women. Nearly all the villages were sprayed with petroleum and burned. ', jl;,[: ':■[.,^

GERMANS SHOOT ZOUAVES. A SOLDIER'S REPORT. V NOT "REGULAR" SOLDIERS.. (Received October 11, 8.46 p.m.) Bordeaux, October 10. A wounded Zouave, the survivor of a party of 90, asserts that the Germans deliberately shot his comrades, declaring them to be irregulars.

MINES ON THE SEAS. FISHING VESSEL LOST. Copenhagen, October 9. A German mine blew up a German fishing-boat. One man was killed and one injured. GERMANS SEIZE FOOD. BELGIANS LEFT TO STARVE. GOVERNMENT'S protest. (Received October 11, 10.20 p.m.) Ox.-.nd, October 10. The Belgian Government is making a vehement protest against the action of the Germans in monopolising the foodstuffs in Brussels and its environs, thus reducing the native population to famine. RECRUITS FROM RAILWAYS (Received October 11, 11.20 p.m.) London, October 10. Eleven English railway companies have contributed nearly 40,000 recruits to Earl Kitchener's army.