GERMAN BARBARITIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 9792, 24 October 1918, Page 1

GERMAN BARBARITIES.

1; El s A HAT iON IHJII BELGIUM. | NEW YOKE, October 21. j Tho Now York “Times’’ Washington correspondent says that advices have boon received I bat the Belgian Govern- : mont is preparing lo assess tho damage dona (<y Gorman;, ilnrin/ the 'occupation. Belgium will make heavy demands for compensation. | TEH BIBLE PEN PICTURES, ■ I'KO.AI EMANCIPATED CITIES. j LONDON, October 21. j War correspondents draw terrible pen '■ pict tiros of 1 lie German's brutality in j the emancipated cities. Mr Beach I Thomas writes:—The Wood and agony | of r.rhi-h prisoners ami French and j Belgian' women i-ry from tho streets of I all these towns and more. ’The Brit- ’ ish chaplain in Lille, who saw the ! Hack hub- prison with ils shifting population oi 800 prisoners, who was present daily at Hie progressive deaths of the starved and bullied men. trim read the burial service over 200 Englishmen who died of oppression, ha; eorroborai.ors from Bohain to Oslend among tln-.-ell'-saerilit-iiig men and women who -nil’'led blow;- and imprisonment in their endeavours to save prisoners From star', ai ion. They saw .men tumble m Ihe si i ecu, from sheer inanition. The Germans indulged in reprisals | lor invented frim,... The shilled endian:; n a village n-’i-;■ Lille because “A i Ereueli ship bombarded Alexandrctla." They gave British prisoners no load lor three days beeanse, so they said, German prisoners were under shellfire at the It online. I have sworn testimony from Lille, Tonreoing ami Boubaix Hint they snatched in the middle of tho night thousands of women away and dying men were lelfc alone.- Many could not til larewell to thr-ir daughters. For sis mouiiis they had no news of them. 'The First they hoard was tho return of their once innocent daughters, aged, Girly and worn after mouths of forced labour in barracks that were mean, alone supplied 18(>t) of these women slaves. Ihg Germans’ brutality was only exceeded by tboir meanness. Tiiev gutted ■ ■•.'cry house and factory. They paid nothing except lor food and drink, for which they paid (iimrier-prii e, in paper. I. went lo lie,, convent of some teaching sisters to see a friend, “is it really Jour years, ’ I asked, '‘since you had news-’'’ Sim answered, “Four years and seven days.’’ No whisper of Hu, fate of their dearest had reached them, nor had their letter;; gone. Tho Germans sold them special postcards at high prices and then destroyed the mail, That-is the sui't ol money-grubbing brutality to which the civilians were treated. ’ SA D TA LE Fit DM.' IT) IT. El IS. NEW VOiiK, October 21. Mr Duranty, Hie “Times’’ correspondent on tiie French front, says the Germans at _ Beiders perpetrated a tragedy that is almost unique, eyjirj in the records of German cruelty. When the order was given for the inhabitants to leave their houses because tho Allies were advancing a farmer and Ids wife and three children remained. The Germans found them and butchered them in their own farmyard, where the bodies were discolored by the French cavalry a few hours later.

Tho majority of the LYgUDO inhabitants were compelled to leave Boulers with the retreating Germans, and only a hundred oi the population remained.