MORE GERMAN ATROCITIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7672, 17 January 1918, Page 3

MORE GERMAN ATROCITIES.

PITILESS jM URI) 10R E RS. MORE CRIMES TO HE- EXPIATED. LONDON, -lan. RE It is learned from ollicial Belgian sources that liflv-eight executions occurred iu Belgium leccnlly, lot ailing I'TO ifoiT the year, fo r mtriotic crimes. The victims include ten women, I hosehet ween fourlech amb »iS(eeu years of agei and several hoys under’ twenty. All were supposed t 0 be guilty of spying. The Germans forced two girls to witness the death of their mother and father, and then shot flic girls when they refused to give informal ion. Another girl of .sixteen .who .was 'discovered' carrying letters . ( ,n ill the frontier, pleaded for her life. AI line last moment she was shot, when on her .knees.' Reuter's correspondent at Anlweip Headquarters in Prance savs that the American antlioril es have learned from an authentic source I hat Germany is ( I rea I ing 'Aimerdcaii pefebnters wl Ih vei'v much less consideration than is showed (~ British and French'. Indeed 1 , it is fliidieuEl, 4 t)ba>t flicy are treated as the? Russians were. The world knows what that means. T( is expected that th» Unit-

ctl States will, take steps to isccurje an amelioration. It is reported that submarines torpedoed a British steamer o£ 4100 tons ia the. Mediterranean. The steamer sank in throe minutes. A submarine rose but did (not to help Ijhc crow, who were clinging to upturned boats. A French vessel , rescued thej, eaptnln, two ofTiecrs, and fourteen oi the c»cw.