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Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5726, 1 October 1914, Page 2

ATROCITIES BY GERMANS. AMERICAN INVESTIGATIONS

STORIES CANNOT RE FABRICATIONS. Received 11.50 p.m., 30th. New York, September 29. Mr Ilomro Copeland, who has been officially employed by the American Imbassy in London, to assist; stranded Americans, has written to Mr Harold ewcll ex-Vice-Consul at Liverpool, ivimk the results of conversations with iany wounded French soldiers. He states:—“l set down the reports of ie German atrocities to hysterical exaggerations, but one soldier after j nother told what he had seen, including cruellies to women and young I iris, with circumstantial details which could not be invented by a man dug at the point of death. All said the corpses were maltreated, and omen were constantly seen when the Germans evacuated towns and viliges, their bodies not being wounded by bullets, but by swords and ayonets. Received 8.45 a.m., Ist. New York, September 30. Mr Copland asserts that after the conquest of Liege the German ildiery, who had for so long been baffled, starved and maddened by alcohol, 1 :11 upon Belgium in a frenzy of rapine, rape, mutilation and lust. i His statements have provoked an extraordinary outburst of public c iger; the greater because Mr Copland has carefully distinguished between 1 ie satiation of a section of the soldiery and mere sex excesses. | Mr Copland refers to Jack the Ripper crimes as a parallel, and states : at the whole of Belgium has been given over to the passions of mad- F med men. \