NO PRISONERS!
GERMANS KILL THE WOUNDED. FIENDISH ORDER CARRIED OUT. (Received August 3, 3 p.m.) PARIS, August 2. A further official report on German atrocities details numerous cases where French civilians were used as screens during German attacks. Many Frenchmen are suffering from horrible wounds due to filed bullets, which the Germans packed in special boxes, labelled "parabellum." General Stenger, commanding the 58th Brigade issued orders on July 2(> stating that no more prisoners are- to be taken and not a living Frenchman was to be left. Statements of German prisoners and German diaries show that this order was carried out, and that French wounded were also finished off in cold blood with bayonet stabs and the butts of rifles. In other cases they were found with their throats slit,, or their chests crushed in or otherwise mu-
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 462, 3 August 1915, Page 10
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138NO PRISONERS! Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 462, 3 August 1915, Page 10
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