SUPER-HYPOCRISY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14213, 2 February 1917, Page 6

SUPER-HYPOCRISY.

SOME CRIMES OF MEN WHO NOW INVOKE ''HUMANITY." When the rulers of Germany m. making peace proposals ' claim to be moved by humanity and their duty to God, it is well to remember the." following acts of inhumanity, perpetrated cold-bloodedly. The I/usitania crime Avas .exulted m by press and public, and a medal struck to commemorate the horror; *...-•. Lusitania torpedoed and sunk without ■warning. Over 1000 perish,; including many women and children. ».'. Murderous Zeppelin raids with the avow, ed) object of mere fri^htfulness. Armienian massacres, directed by German officers. . Five hospital ships, clearly, d*esignated as such, torpedoed and sunk. ' Refu^eo ship torpedoed m Channel ; SO drowned. Poison gas introduced m warfare. Liquid fire. Red cross fired on m €he field and used as^over for German guns. Unspeakable atrocities on Belgian civilian population. Men shot, women and girls outraged. Belgian towns sacked and 'burned. Historic monuments of civilisation wanton'.y destroyed. Civil populations of Belgium, France, Poland, and Serbia deported to Germany to, work as slaves. . Nurse Oavell murdered. Captain Fryatt murdered. British prisoners m typhus-stricken camps at Wittenberg and Gardelcgen abandoned to death,' after deliberat-e neglect by their guards.' , British soldiers ill-treated and starved ,m prison camps. «, • Undefended towns ."helled from the sea. Many civilians killed and' wounded. East African wells poisoned. Natives of Cameroons and German SouthWest Africa murdered, mutilated, and tortured because of sympathy for British invaders. ' j* '.