SACRILEGE OF THE GERMANS.
(United Service.) (Received Thursday, at 9 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday
Mr Warner Allen, the war correspondent, who is with the French on the Somme, describes the sacrilege of the Germans. The fortresses at Curlu turned out to be graveyards. The Germans emptied the graves and vaults, using them as dugouts. They destroyed and flung out the coffins r.nd corpses, and uprooted the headstones and railings for barricades. They linked up the whole with subterranean passages, forming elaborate defence works, full of concealed shelters for machine guns, where the Germans, driven from the village, finally took refuge, compelling the French to concentrate their artillery and lay the church in ruins before the position was conquered.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXX, Issue 146016, 20 July 1916, Page 5
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