GERMAN ATROCITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16433, 12 July 1915, Page 3

GERMAN ATROCITIES

STATEMENT BY DR MARTIN,

(Fbom Oub Own Correspondent.) , WELLINGTON, July 8. In detailing some of his experiences at tv? 6 /u° ar *'n, of Palmerston North, stated at a speech hero yesterday that personally he had seen no cases of German atrocities, nor had the medical officers with him ; but the evidence of the French medical officers and the accounts of eye-witnesses were beyond dispute. He had often seen the bodies of murdered French farmers. He had seen a man aged 60 years lying dead over his plough, and had seen other old men lying with their heads smashed in at the doors of their cottages. The Germans were out for slaughter, and killed all they could. Dr Martin said that on the occasion of early morning advances he had noticed the bodies of dead men lying all over the field. It was curious to see how men behaved when -rounded. Groups of German wounded ware often seen together in heap 6 where thev had crawled for warmth and the companionship which men seek in death. They lay in ditches and curled round trees in most peculiar attitudes.