GERMAN ATROCITIES.
BELGIANS SHOT DEAD. WELLINGTON, August 12. Painful proof of the truth of the German atrocities has been received by Airs Galloway, of Kent terrace, Wellington, who is a Belgian by birth. From London there has come to her a letter from her younger sister, who gives a brief description. Her father, mother, sister (with an infant child), and an aunt were among a party which was trying to escape into Holland. When four kilometres from the frontier they took shelter in a deserted farmhouse. A patrol of Germans asked them whether they were for the Germans or the Belgians, and on finding they wore Belgians the soldiers fired deliberately, and shot 15 dead, including Airs Galloway’s father, mother, sister, and aunt. The writer of the letter was in a hayloft with I;. 1 , young girls, so they they got away later on.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3205, 18 August 1915, Page 5
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