General.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 24, 15 September 1914, Page 5

General.

TERRIBLE OUTRAGES BY OUR ENEMIES.

SHOOTING PRIESTS AND NUNS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, September 14. An English Soman Catholic chaplain at Brussels states that after the sacking of Louvain the fury of the soldiers centred on the priests. All fired at the nuns as they were leaving the convent. Among 20 Jesuits captured, one had with him a diary in which he complained of German sacrilege. The owner was ordered to be shot on a charge of sedition. _ _ lfs fellow-priests formed a semi-circ o round the victim, whose heart was marked with a white cross on his cassock, and witnessed the shooting.

PRIESTS CAPTURED AND SHOT BY THE ROADSIDE.

Ostend, September 14. _ The German retreat southwards is marked by a trail of horrible outrages. They entered the chapel at Lierre • Marie where four priests were celebrating Mass. They seized the priests and forced them to march ahead of them. Eventually the four were killed.

GERMANS' UNNAMEABLE ATRO-

CITIES.

(Received 9 a.m.) London, September 14. Germans entered a private house at Renaix, where they found the entire family in the cellar. They violated and then cut the throats of two girls, cut off the boys’ ears, and inflicted uanameable mutilations. GERMAN GENERAL'S DENIAL OF THE ATROCITIES.

(Received 9.30 a.m.) London, September 14. Mr Powell/ the New York World's correspondent in Belgium, had an interview with General von Boehn, and the latter emphatically denied atrocities on the Belgian uoncombatants. Mr Powell pointed out many instances he saw personally, and Boehn answered. “I did everything possible to protect the nor\-combatants.’ ’ •\ ’ ~ ' ’ ' L • ' ■,• ' NO SIEGE OF PABISI

BUT PREPARED FOR ALL POSSIBLE CONTINGENCIES. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, September 14. Paris, having fully prepared, is somewhat dissatisfied at there being no siege. Meanwhile. M. Gallieni continues preparing for possible contingencies. He has taken a census in order to organise and economise the distribution of food. This shows there are 886,267 civilian householders "within the entrenched camp, comprising 2,006,766 souls. Over a million fled. Those left are quiet and contented, women spending their time knitting and the men assisting in the trench and placing obstructions m the streets. THE AEGEAN TBLAHDS. EGOTIATIONS BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY POa./uJiED,

(Received 10.30 a.m.)Athens, September 14,

The Greco-Turkish negotiations regarding the Aegean Islands have been postponed indefinitely.

THE SIGN OF THE CROSS.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, September 14.

A patrol of 35 Austrians captured a Russian chaplain near Lemberg. Finding the soldiers were Slavs, the priest made the sign of the cross over them, and described the sin they were committing in shedding the blood of their Slav brethren. As a result the whelp patrol followed the priest into the Russian lines.

THE CROWN PRINCE AT VERDUN.

Paris, September 14

A Berlin message claims that the Crown Prince captured a fortified position south-west of Vedun, and is attacking the forts with the heaviest artillery.

WINTER ON THE CONTINENT.

London, September 14

There has been a sudden fall in the temperature on the Continent. Women are busily making warm winter elothing for the troops. The hope is expressed that the Australasians realise that their expeditionary forces will be plunging into a winter campaign.

JAPANESE LEAVING ENEMIES' TERRITORY.

London, September 14

Hundreds of Japanese refugees from Berlin and Vienna have departed for London and Tokio.

A SERVIAN RED CROSS FUND STARTED. (Received 10.0 a.m.) Sydney, September 15. A Servian Red Cross fund ha 5 been starts