GERMAN BARBARITY.
SAVAGE EXECUTIONS IN BELGIUM. FAMOUS ATHLETE'S END. DRAGGED THROUGH THE STREETS. " The Times " Service. (Received August 10, 9 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, August 15. _ The Germans daily continue their savage executions in Belgium. The famous' athlete, Van Wisutergeni, condemned for espionage', was bound and dragged by a twenty-yard chain through the streets of Oudenarde—the guards spitting in his face — to the place of execution, where he was shot. Tho victim bore his sufferings heroicalb'-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12087, 16 August 1917, Page 5
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