TERRORISM.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15444, 5 September 1914, Page 9

TERRORISM.

MAINTAINED BY MASSACRE. TWO" SHOCKING STORIES. Press Association-—By Tol.—Oopvright, Received 10-50 p.m., Sept. 20th. DIEPPE, Sept. 4 (a.m.). An agent of the Belgian State railways describes a German cold-blooded massacre at AeTscliot. A brooding over liis country's wrongs, sliot a German Colonel who was commander of the town, dead. All the men in the town, numbering 390, were thereupon driven into the church and taken out in groups of three. Of every three one was taken at random, led away and shot, and the surviving 260 were forced, under threats of a general massacre to dig huge graves in which to bury their kinsmen and townsfolk. ' OSTENDj Sept. 4 (a.m.). A telegram states that citizens of Namur were accused of assisting in the defence of the town. The Germans summarily shot eight men in each of numerous streets. Received 11.20 p.m., Sept. 4th. LONDON, Sept. 4 (a.m.). Stories of Gorman brutalities are accumulating from all quarters. British army • medical officers declare that When German soldiers are seriously wounded their comrades simply shoot them dead in order to save trouble, moreover that they deliberately fire on British medical? corps, and shell hospitals.

EVIDENCE FROM LOCVAIN. Received 12.5 a.m., Sept. sth. LONDON, Sept. 4 (a.m.) Hague newspapers are full of descriptions of the Louva,in horrors. Dutch eye witnesses state that prior to the outrage tho inhabitants were tliorouglily cowed, so terrified that they hardly dared speak to each other in th© streets. On the night that Louvain was blotted out of the map tuvy saw Germans shooting the inhabitants haphazard. As each house caught fire tho Germans battered in the front doors of the next house, and when the frightened inhabitants rushed out they were shot down, men, women, and children. One German boasted that he had shot sixty-three people. R-ecoived 1.5 a.m., Sept. sth. Mr Oliver Madox Hueffer at Boulogne interviewed the Cure of a little village south-west of Brussels. The Cure stated that an officer rodo over a little child in the street, killing her, and he rode on, cursing. One of the criowd flung a stone, and Gov mans immediately fired, killing several villagers. Tho Cure and twelve notables were then seized. Later a villager fired a single shot, and five hostages were shot. In addition many villagers were killed by indiscriminate volleys, and their village burnt.