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Otago Witness, Issue 3200, 14 July 1915, Page 49

GERMAN ATROCITIES. STATEMENT BY DR MARTIN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, July S. In detailing some of his experiences at the front, Dr A. A. Martin, of Palmerston North, stated at a speech here 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. Ho 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 ho had noticed the bodies of dead men lying all over the field. It was curious to'see how men behaved when wounded. Groups of German wounded were often seen together in heaps where they had crawled for warmth and tho companionshin which men seek in death. They lay in ditches and curled round trees in most peculiar attitudes. The Canterbury Sheep owners.’ Union lias granted £?.5 to tho Waimato Technical Classes for sheep-shearing.