Germany.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 4, 22 August 1914, Page 5

Germany.

SCENES IN BERLIN.

[By Electric Telegraph:—Copyright!

[United Press Association.] (Received 8.5 a.m.) The Hague, August 21

A Dutch official who was recently in Berlin states that wages have fallen thirty per cent. The slaughter of cattle has been restricted, the object being to obtain the Dutch and reserve the German cattle. Spyhunting has become a popular frenzy. This official saw several so-called Russians lynched though they were apparently Germans who were too frightened to explain. The mob accused one man of being a.spy, and when the police arrived he was arrested without the least attempt to investigate the facts. The scenes are of hourly occurrence.

GERMAN OUTRAGES

Brussels. August 20

The Mayor of Linsmean, near Tirlemont, officially reports that some German hussars ,whoso officer was shot by a Belgian patrol, accused civilians of shooting him. They shot two villagers as spies, murdered a. man and his wife, ignited their home, and cast their bodies into the flames. They shot three others. Finally they .tied a number to mitrailleuses by their feet and dragged them along with their lleads on the ground, eight of them dying. They also shot several with revolvers, blowing off their ears. Paris, August 21.

It is officially stated that the Germans murdered eleven persons at Badonvillers, including the Mayor’s'wife. They burned seventy-eight houses and killed five people at Bremeuil, including a man and a woman aged 74.