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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 68, 16 November 1914, Page 6

At the commencement of the war some people were inclined to think that the cable man was telling falsehoods, or at the most woefully exaggerating the facts, when he stacked that the Germans were barbarians enough to maltreat innocent little children, going so far as to cut off their ears, noses' aiitf" hands'. <Biltt now so many letters liave ooen ceived stating'.that this is,"absolutely .true, that ,we can only rank the Germans as out-and-out barbarians. ■Mr Crough" (a gentleman travelling New Zealand 'and at present staying, at the Stratford Mountain House) states that he has "Just received a letter from his si'steif'.who has a largufi residence in the Tj&Je.of Wight, and she Writes to i;h# "e^oci, that she ha« taken in; a i|iif-of •Belg'niU' , children who are-hOftieles's aiid'without parents, and all of. them are maimed, some having both ears cut off, somo both hands] "' 'others'- without their noses. In this connection, Mr Williams, Caretaker at .the House, states that fourteen y^i's : •ago,.when in the China war, he constantly came across .crises of this ..kind, .committed on. adults, -butj not on children,', and when'done by fiiese Chinese,they al : ways" mercifuljy after'U'ai'ds jkilledv their victims.•• lii fact", for fiendish cruelty, compared .'to these Chinese, the Germans easily excel. ;;And yet infPe.kin the, 'Chinese were compelled by force* Vj 1 the Germans., to erect a, monument, to., the German Consul who was killed j there by the ?Chiriese, ho't' in memofiam but as an everlasting sign that they (the Chinese) were barbarians, and that the Germans resented this sort of thing.