MURDEROUS INVADERS .
BELGIAN INQUIRIES. \ '-■'*'; TALES OF SURVIVORS, OUTRAGES IN AEHSCHOJ. '.'■ (Received October 11, 0.35 p.m.) = - London, October 10. • The Press Bureau reports that the v Belgian Commission finds that th& I >xcesses at Aerschot were due to the ' !'• •egular army and the Landsturm > I equally. Murders, looting, rape I ind attacks on persons and property ilosed only when the Belgians re- :■/'''•: I entered Aersehot. ;;■ A wounded Belgian soldier affirms - * that with 27 other prisoners he was • C'l forced to walk in front of the Ger- ■■."'■ mans along a. road on the banks of : - the Demer. The Germans fired, kill- - "■-'■'. .-i ing many. The soldier feigned death, ■'-. .•" \ but the Germans discovered this, and V he was about to be shot when an ;• s sflicer said He is not worth a bullet; throw him into the river." This : was done, but the Belgian escaped ;,',■ -''■?./! by remaining in the water during the day with only his head emerging. Only one other escaped. Corroborative evidence was given by the inhabitants that the bullet- \ which killed a German general oarne . . \ from the Germans and not from the v Burgomaster's son, as the Germans' alleged. ' M , - -. r<f&
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15737, 12 October 1914, Page 8
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