GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 24

GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS.

LONDON, September 28. Ihe French Foreign Minister has published an English volume, dealing with German crimes. It contains 100 documents, affording convincing evidence that the Germans murdered wounded prisoners with savage brnfality. Many of the victims’ heads were reduced to a pulp. The booh produces General Stenger’s orders to massacre prisoners, adding: “No living enemy must be left behind us.” Ghastly stories are related of outrages upon and massacre of civilians in Belgium. GENERAL ITEMS. LONDON, September 28. London is now practically cleared ol

aliens of a military age. Over 4000 are quartered at the Alexandra Palace. Mr J. A. Jickall, of New Zealand, at a recruiting meeting, said he was too old to join the army, and so came to England to offer his services as a munition -worker. Mr Jickall’s three sons are at the Dardanelles. Lieutenant Jeffrey Parker, of Dunedin, •who was a member of the Army Medical Corps attached to the Manchester Regifent, was killed at Gallipoli. While the Queen of the Belgians was visiting the trenches a lively cannonade opened, and her Majesty sheltered in a dugout. Several shells burst in the vicinity, but the Queen chatted calmly until the shelling ceased. KRONSTAD, September 28. In the course of a lively election meeting General Botha emphatically declared that if anybody in the next Parliament attempted to introduce a Bill to commandeer men for Europe his Government, if in office, would strongly oppose it. WASHINGTON, September 27. Austria has agreed unconditionally to withdraw M. Dumba from the Embassy at Washington. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. MELBOURNE, September 27. The military authorities are experimenting with a periscope attachment to rifles, invented by a Swede, with a view to equipping the forces of the commonwealth. SYDNEY, September 28. The military authorities are issuing a circular warning publicans in country districts against serving soldiers. A naturalised German was fined £25 for failing to report that a fellow countryman was possessed of a revolver and ammunition. The case in -which Arthur Kidman (a contractor) and three officers are charged with conspiracy in overcharging for contracts is dragging along. To-day much documentary evidence was submitted dealing with Kidman’s profits upon contracts.