MURDEROUS BRUTES

Southland Times, Issue 17506, 21 August 1915, Page 11

MURDEROUS BRUTES

GERMANS’ WORK DESCRIBED. | UNSPEAKABLE! HORRORS OF GAS. Mr F. C. Raphael has received a letter from his brother, Mr B. L. Raphael, in which he states that he has arrived in London with his left arm paralj scd , from a shrapnel wound, received in f France, while serving with the British Red Cross. In his letter (says the Christchurch Press) he goes on to say that he has been at the front since November, and has passed through the most strenuous and horrible experiences of his life. His paralysed arm was nothing. He tells of the German "It pulls men’s mouths right round on | the sides of their faces. It sometimes dislocates men's jaws. They cannot y speak and they die in ghastly agony. It ; makes their eyes look as if they had been terribly mauled in the ring. Not onlv do the eyelids and brows turn black, hut the cheeks and the forehead turn black also. Many lo.se their sight utter!v. The skin of the face ■wrthin a day «if two after the gas has l/ccn breathed becomes ulcerous. It is 1000 to 1 that any man who gets a good wriff of that stuff never recovers. Every day soldiers are coming into the hospitals gasping for breath and panting like dogs on blazing summer days. It is heartbreaking. ‘ No civilised being could ( believe it.” Mr Raphael has seen other things. He saw three little Belgian gills v\ith theii hands cut off at the wrist. “It is pure barbarism,” he says; “no Red Indian ever beat it.” Captain R. A. S. Allen, of the Fifth Battalion of yVestern Canadians, died in Mr Raphael's arms in a hospital in Franco. He was a veteran of the South African war. Ho died on May i, and was buried on tho '.ird. An tlymg, ho said to him, “I was not killed. 1 was murdered. Toil the people of Canada what happened. I was taken prisoner, wounded in botli arms. My captors shot me in the stomach. fhat was the shot that wounded me mortally.’' For Children’s Hacking Cough at night. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6, 2/S- -