ORGY OF HATRED AND FRIGHTFULNESS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15182, 29 March 1917, Page 5

ORGY OF HATRED AND FRIGHTFULNESS.

SURVEY OF RECONQUERED TERRITORY. FIENDISH CONDUCT OF GERMANS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received March 29, 9.50 a.m. • NEW YORK, March 28. 'Mr Wythe Williams the Paris correspondent of the New York Times, was the first civilian to survey the whole of the 300 square miles of reconquered territory. He cables: “We looked into the utter blackness of th« Osrmqn soul. Ae past atrocities have been but trifling compared wttii this orgy of hatred and frightfulness. The wilful destruction is indescribable. We were impressed with the enormous strength of the amsaated positions. The main concrete line seemed impregnable. There waa practically tea miles from barrier to barrier of barbed wire of solid formation. I am convinced that the inhabitants lived in bondage worse than galley slaves. American food was received, but much of it wa» taksn -fay the Germans themselves. Old men and women, children and cripples were left near the charred remains of houses, and young women and girls herded with the retreating army for a form of slavery OB* does not dare to contemplate. A woman told me her, husband had been shot, her two sons sent to bondage, and three daughters forcibly carried off. This is a typical experience.” % HESDENBURG ORDERS DEVASTATION. t LONDON, March 28. » Mr Gibbs mentions that Hindenburg visited Roisel on the 10th and personally directed the retirement. He ordered the devastation of the abandoned country.