GERMAN EXECRABLENESS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16508, 7 October 1915, Page 5

GERMAN EXECRABLENESS.

CAN IT BE FORGOTTEN? SHOOTING WOMEN.

PARIS, October 6. (Received Oct. 6, at 11.30 p.m.) Details are to hand of the execution of Belgians at Liege on June 8. A woman denounced 25 others for giv> ing information to the Allies. One woman was persuaded to confess on a ' promise that the culprits would be ' treated leniently; nevertheless 11 were sentenced to death. Volunteers were called to form firing squads, but none was forthcoming. Men were then 'chosen under threats. The condemned arrived in wagons at daybreak, accom= panied by priests, and were placed with their backs to a wall. Posts were driven in the ground, and to these they were tied if their courage failed. Louise Frenay was ordered to be shot \ first. The soldiers hesitated. They had" been unaware that they had to shoot a woman, and when ordered to fire some aimed to the side and some low. The resul,t was that the woman was wounded in the lesss. An officer ordered the men to reload, but the men flatly refused. The officer then called up a non commissioned officer, who shot the woman with his revolver. The rest of the sentences were , rapidly carried out. REPORT FROM HIGH COMMISSIONER. The High Commissioner reports, under date London, October 6 (1 a.m.) :— There has been a general bombardment along the whole front. The allied artillery are responding very energetically on the 'German trenches. On Monday evening the enemy made a surprise attack on our posts in the Vosges. They were completely repulsed.