GERMAN VANDALISM.
DESTRUCTION IN FRANCE.
RUTHLESSNESS IN RETREAT.
LONDON, Sept. 8. Recteb's correspondent at British headquarters, says: Our troops continue to hustle tho German retirement, of which prisoners from the Alpine Corps supply confirmation, relating details of the consequent confusion. The hostile artillery firo mostly conies from extreme ranges. On the Nieppe front a strong enemy attack forced back our outposts. The latest German trick is to use ferocious dogs with his sentries and patrols. A captured order pays a tribute to the taciturnity cf the British prisoners, especial'y from London regiments, who give aJimttedly the cleverest and most evasive answers.
The Germans are destroying vandal-like, says Reuter's Paris correspondent. When they have not time to burn down houses they remove the furniture and make great bonfires of it. They blow up the most important buildings and pillage everything. They remove agricultural machinery, and destroy everything else which they havo rio« time to remove. The sight of such i.ewstatiou, ordered by the leaders of the German army, kindles in our solaier3 a dc-fumination to punish sucn crimes. They seem to know no fatigue ill pursuit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16963, 24 September 1918, Page 6
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