EXCESSES AT AERSCHOT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15750, 27 October 1914, Page 4

EXCESSES AT AERSCHOT.

MURDER AND PILLAGE.

The report of the Belgian Commission; attributes tho German excesses at Ae:s(hot to the regular army and the Landsi iirm 'equally. Murders, looting, rape, and attacks on persons and property closed oily when the Belgians re-entered tha town. __ "- A wounded Belgian soldier affirmed that with 27 other prisoners, who had fallen into the Germans' hands, ha was forced to walk in front of a force of Germans along a road on the bank of the River Demer. The Germans fired at them, killing many. He feigned death, but the Germans discovered his ruse, and he was about to be shot, when an officer said. " He is not, worth a bullet; throw him into the river." Thi? was done, but the Belgian escaped liv remaining in the water all day, with only his head emerging. Only one of his companions escaped. Corroborative evidence has been given by inhabitants that the bullet which killed a" German general came from tho Germans' own ranks, and was not fired by the Burgomaster's sun, as the Germans alleged. "

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