GERMAN OUTRAGES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15455, 18 September 1914, Page 8

GERMAN OUTRAGES.

SACRILEGE AT AERSCHOT. BY DRUNKEN SOLDIERS. CATHEDRAL DEFILED. LONDON, Sept. 16. Mr Louis Mack, Antwerp correspondent of the '-Evening News, 1 ' describes the horrors at Aerschot. In the Cathedral many empty wine and beer bottles were thrown en the h'gh altar. i'ho offertory box was stolen and replaced by a beer bottle. Bottles and filth lay everywhere. A Madonna's head was out off aud a large crucifix burnt. The altar brocades were slashed and pictures wer.> chopped from their frames. A dead pig lay on one side of the chapel. These things were the work of drunken soldiers. Street after street were destroyed and arc now blackened ruins. At chemists' shops the Germans mixed alt the- drugs together. . 'J hey .--hot the burgomaster and his j two children. A German colonel was shot in the burgomaster's servant's room from outside the building, ifc is supposed by the servant girl's sweetheart. The girl and her swain were instantly executed by the Germans. MASSACRE OF ARTISANS. ANTWERP, Sept. 16. The Brandenburg troops slaughtered IS:.' civilians at Soinmagnu on the ground that rifles were found in some o; their houses, despite tho fact that the workmen 'n tho Liege d'strict take rifles from tho factories to f:n : sh them in their homos. Such rifles are withoutbreech mechanism the men had no ammunition. RED CROSS NURSE. HORRTBLY MUTILATED. LONDON. Sept.. 16. During the attack at. Velvorde the Germans', cut off the breasts of Miss Grace Hume, o: tho Dumfries Red Cross Nurse Hospital. Miss Hume died in great agony. She had prevented a Gorman soldier shooting a wounded man. and shot the German dead. LETTERS TO THE PAPERS. IN THE SPIRIT OF THE OUTRAGES. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 16. Newspapers in Berlin publish a number of letters from the field, complaining bitterly of the reports that German women and girls received the French and Russian prisoners with' kindness, even -riving small presents of food and tobacco. One German writes: "In the name of my comrades who are shedding blood for these unnatural women, I extir.ss my deepest regret. Wo are all filled with disgust, at such behaviour. Women like this ought to bo put in front of the troops that they might feel in their own bodies what our lot :s." PARIS. Sept. 16. The British prisoners in Germany have b;-o:i singled out for excessive, humiliations. They are prodded with iiavonots tor the amusement of ieerhi" rvi.wds. AN OBJECT LESSON. LONDON. Sept. 16. One thousand Gorman prisoners have bo,-n soni u> special prison camps at Aldor-Jiot. Dorohostor and elsewhere, at!'! an- receiving full army rations. I