A GHASTLY MASSACRE.
LONDON. October 25
.The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent says that according to Russian newspapers the town of Wenden was the scene of a ghastly massacre of Germans during the Russian, retreat from Riga, While the last Russian detachments were traversing the town, the rumour was spread that the German residents were firing at and bombing the troops from windows, whereupon rioters, mostly civilians, systematically attacked the German houses and exterminated every German, not sparing even women or children. The rabblo committed-every imaginable outrage. The town, during the orgies, was under heavy bombardment by the Germans on the one hand and the Russians on the other. The Germans used gas shells with poisonous fumes, killing both plunderers and their intended victims.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17124, 27 October 1917, Page 2
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123A GHASTLY MASSACRE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17124, 27 October 1917, Page 2
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