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MALTREATMENT OF PRIESTS.

GERMAN BARBARITIES EXPOSED. By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyrigHti (Receiver! January 9 } 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, January 8. The Belgian Legation has issued n record of the maltreatment of Catholic f clergy in Belgium, including an invalid octogenarian at Bueohen accused oi firing on the Germans, He was thrown into a ditch., dragged through the* streets by the legs and shot. A priest at Gelrode was beaten witW a rifle butt until the blod dripped, then shot and thrown into the river. Twenty-six innocent priests were* killed in the Malines diocese, ten at i Liege, twenty at Namur and three ail ' j Ton rnai.

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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11282, 9 January 1915, Page 1

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MALTREATMENT OF PRIESTS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11282, 9 January 1915, Page 1

MALTREATMENT OF PRIESTS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11282, 9 January 1915, Page 1