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k,A1,1 Stabbed, Sho
h- -Ambulances of
ts 'or n Shells
rately Destroyed
• efamed and: Sacred St tueil
lesale Butchery Am.use ent
and File -.Officers Set Men Ex -
Nameless Bruta.ity and Hideous'
tion- relic es Full of Naked
e Wom'en. orrors of Heil
( tone by Order of the
Itict of the German armies -in the districts occu-
them hi Europe constitutes the most blistering-
.,
lent of any nation recorded in history. Organized
undreds of innocent women and children was fat
e worst of the German crimes. Full'rein was given
command to the degenerate impulses of men whorn
had long bereft of their finer feelings, and • the
utrages were of so black a description that they
-ecorded for decent readers.
of women. of -all ,ages Was ,carried on both by in -
by hordes .of brutal soldiers, resulting in the hop.,
numberless ,unfortunate females. Ladies of educa-
Ment in captured villages and towns were forced
the tables of 'German soldiers and officers after
aked. Little children were impaled on the swords
of Huns and eirried in triumph at the head of/corn-
infantshearts stopped beating, when they were
d.
ig of homes an the destruction of property sup -
g of this nature ever perpetrated before. Com-,
laid bare as if, by a cyclone, robber officers first
of art and other valuables for transportatidn to
eitSc4,e,•‘,
gi. it the reign of terror, the only chance of the in-
wlaos\e homes lay in the path Of the German advance
pealing.to the lunnanity of SOfitie private soldier. Very '4\`1 -
one of these would' be .founcl who retained some
yinpathy for the wretched. -
,
a ea
S SET' HOIRTI§L.V1tXAMPt.,:33. 9.!,:i7,,t all who fail Into your hands be at your mercy. Just as the Huns a thousand years ego under Attila gain-
s
officers not only permitted their men un- • p,
- ea -a reputation In virtue of which t heyestill.live in
historical tradition, so may the name of. Germany, become
, but even by their example encouraged known.
• (The Issaiser to his troeps,1900.)
<EU') THES
RORS FAR FROM
OUR
ge, taking always the fairest women and girls for
Their .guilt, including that of the higher command,
elusively by the well-known fact that the. German
hikhly disciplined than any other in the world and
one through Belgiuzn without harming a single.wo-
d, had,,th0 AtT)P4.0.4)Willnent'S policy not c.ailect
out saying that no rule or International law;
et of war by civilized nations was respected by
, . •
p this fiendish ' horde from over-rtuming Europe
g our own shores that our soldiers overseai ,are
It is to back up our soldiers and keep the ranks_
d.i.a.ris are voting in this election. -
,SOME GHASTLY EXAMPLES
trot:I-Hew in -Belgium
vestigated by a Brit -
resided over by Vin-
-hzir.stirre study and
deuce, witnesses and
dertaken. and much
ejected as liable to
arrantad by the
t, what remains Is
ve.." •
illort shale
4 „ -
atti--5* awn 6seit1ise
in houses were seized,
the town, and shot.
40 men were shot. In
If the father and mother
the clateghter'died after
etedly outraged, and the
Ildeenleri *
were burned at
duetted men shot into
indows to prevent the
clashabit,a_nte.
completely destroyed.
•ssted incendiaries.
d china Were. remoyed,
mane; before their des -
officers, who guarded Die
slver tr, band.
soldiere gave themselves.
•-h I in the' streets of
cn _night of August 20
ok•'Pheco in the streets.
the shooting a citizen
by .a friendly German
go out that night. '
, two wiineeses were
ea and were threaten-.
lth five others, that
uld discover a civilian
to have shot- a 'sal-,
.egs, they would be shot
ntb'cee the hostages ton-
,-
viticetr-tileNtofficer that the alleged -
shooting 1 it took 'place at all,. took
place inthe commune of .Cornesse,
and not that of Pepinster, whereupon
the ,Bu,rgomaster of Cornesse, . who
was old and very dea±,. was shot'
forthwith. -
"In Matinee a witness saw a Ger-
man soldier cut a womanrs ..breast
after he had .murdered her, and sew
many' other' dead bodies of women
thesstreets. ,
"0
n a side road at Hofstade 'ther
,-diSrp'se-ef re: civilian was seen on his'
doorategewith a bayonet wound in his
stomach, and by his side the dead
body of a boy of five or six with his
hands nearly severed. • •
Two young women were lying
In the back Yard of the house.. One
had her breast cut off, the other had
been stabbed. .
"A young man who had been haok-
.
ed with the bayonet until hisrentrails
pretruded. He also had fil3 .hands
„Joined inethe 'attitude ,of prayer. •• •
"Setripst the corpse of a -man
with liteelegs cut off, who was partly
bound, was seen; also a girl of seven-
teen. She alleged that she and other
girls had been dragged into a field,
stripped naked and violated, and that
some of them had been killed with
the bayonet. ”
"Two children were bayoneted in
Weeede as they were standing in the
road with their rnother. They were
three or four years old. A srnall farrn
burning olos e by formed a convenient
means of getting rid of the bodies.
They:Wee° thrown into the flames
from the bayonets.
"At Haecht a child -of three With'
its stomach cut open by a bayonet,
Was lying near a house."
BESTIAL VIOLATION AND MURDER
traction of Liege, the their entry by firing on a crowd of
Lae --
150 unarmed unresisting elvillane;
des Pitteurs and houses
de l'Universite.and,..,the
eurs were systema-
th boricine. and hitt:11Y
?tere burned aliVe, _in
their efforts to escape
d by rifle fire. 'Twenty
t while trying to
e eyes, of" one of the
r lege fire brigade
s. not allowed to
its carts, how -
employed in re -
I tin corpses te
t 6 burned on
nci the mier-
ellowing daY,
IVIlianS wee()
lie Flade de
witness
er:1- bY" the
u Women
2,"
five
ttl'e'hRh.l.,
1111111
alone of widen). escaped,
'Certainly most pitiable, and per-
haps mot horrible, if there are any
degrees in horror ouch as this, are
,th reiterated stories of the: wanton
slaughteinand mutilation of children
of teuder years. Nothing in the re-
port is more moving than the simple
cominent on the conditions, in an ex-
temporised prison at. Leiiivairit'-",:.
"One womenwent some'
children died, others weed' born."
eits,'for .wanton murder and inutile.=
tion,, a slegle grotto of -10» o- round
.eA.ersehot provides 1 ehrfeit of evi-
"Two children . Were killed in a
village, apparently Weerde,•
quite
eXtinguiste the ver -y eipirit„ of self- elles. Severalf,s3ithese-tvere ShOt
defence." • „ • .- •
WHAT HAPPENED 'AT ,LOUVAIN.
eoa. a • ey nil sufferederee.1 t
tures. _ .•-•••""7 ee • .
• "TheseVonsenT,-;"'axisl Children w,
An .official report by the .Belgian without! fetid, _stationed ethrough
,Gtrierseenent On the sacking of Lou- the •,atoiccAgSligilets...1:6t4;_, one',
AnitiiiVe‘vasee..., as. ease.. atston„.7:soner_e-,They,. 'v'Tera -peen
"Oseu their chiefs order, the Ger- while lit-chitateettliaysteitSghein fell
ledan,'Skildleis •
forced the ;doersd' tifl the' eit1zene,e,s'Fo.erp...oepeuet;1; anion
houses, •tMel ,set. the houses .on fire them 'Were several Pefeat's and Mon
by means -Of fiieee. They firedL 0,: tied together in fours, w
inliabitante, Who': attempted to leave'sshalte at the end of the square;
-tinge cleyellhiga Neineeeouapersons- tileireeidewelk'skieting the property
wbe,,hadstakeu. ,refuge thete0p,elen -1gs;,,,ellatiatsidesl'Al. pretence Was''..roa
were Senened.- Otheirstv'eletit to'-'exeente .MonSeigneiir COenraer
Islidt thee moment ,they',atteniPiedettne'vicellrector ofetheallniveysitY, a
pave thealtartiaee.,,IVIan.y inhabitants .,Pathths'Smith, 'Of the order of t
,otionWiffi"*ho had success -P're"ahing Brothers. ,A salve of en
ing thelr houses; while esiekping" aetttally,'resoundedapd t4ose Joe
thytithesetztleris,,,,,:wre conductedIng 011 convincsdl'ef," iheargailty
Steathe 'Station Place,' Wher-e. „eanse. ethieettlegrti,:, ,s4iftNe farltegltd';.a,
of • ' civillattS '-'*e'riS' plaucL. Tlids Sybriiseess'ancl..'Sebildi-
strethhededista The were .brutailks;se Were..set fro ee onthe night rof
pareted from their wiyee''andschil-,,26theend 27th42 '-nst. • • '
dien, andespoiled of whatevei•
lirki/EN-LiKE -A-NIMALS
were carrying. Oui• report of Ansehet, ..; 0
31st has exPeeed to you Mr. Minister -?`:'!Oed. tlitir-stlaY-the - 27th August,
the ‘physlcals and moral sterturces'"eight o'clock, orders - Were' 'given'
which were imposed upon a greens' of all the 'idshaloitants to leave L6uVai
75 sisiaon.gst. them. Of the .others; a .sieee the toWn was gal/ie.-Le. be .bo
great 'nunibee wee conducted to the herded. • Old. •Mere women, philcire
rallwsay ,etation, heaped into scattle the -sick;el'unatics.:,f,Jponks-,•: nuns, we
traelceseaded, after .a voyage ,of,M, '"-• ea,4essenede
lil
s'Istsstaippre without 'aillgok:eefsaninealge-What•Sthe'exod
,..netielelenitest,, arrived at CologaRP--1.e, flkte inhabStanf,s really .eneant; wh
s'S'S`The'daY after. their areivaliirthli'airoeities' were 'cormaiteed, we a
city, after a _night passed, ire for: bit beginning, , to learn; th
eigle barracks, where they received a •were - driven. to a-, distance under 4,1
littlo breadeand:water, mane' et them directiOnSof•-brettal Soldiersseinee
were. packej, ..fifteen , to-, a compart- fotee:d, ,to ,kneol,and rat
ment,.,into .,thir41.,plase carriages. and ,th,eir ,handS'I eh011s'.tinief German off
breerght.::Ise,ck to Bytneellee, , where ceeSsT;OsIseOl-clieee passed, and .efet,
theye arrived etaste. of ' coniPlete reft:,...Withetit'. food and:, during ti
extbaustterin,, Stinday„,-; e30fh : August. nfglit eviithdue shelters- 1\ Sally, o
For the:first' tithe' einceStheie•atrest, the roada-OtheraVarriong• whoa -X. We
thy - were 'ablest& tget • enough' to oat.' 'WorneaVarid-'ehilldrert. Whes, could n
They were --then brought te'the!G-6ra a's..""tiriefc,",:ifshb
,rbstne advande poets,' before MallneSS ee than 1(Voil'il•dihabitsieltse-Wee
anclareleaSede • Many of. them ehave drieten „assefaseaae;e'pleslebiont'7ea etow
net', TetUrPeg.. .70t. .Gth,ereeagaine .situated istdarly twenty, •kileinetre
especiallysernernher's, ;of 'the. clergy, •frotnaleouvain. What 'torments the
•weee sent in' the' direction 'of "Beux-' suffered xse one can describe."
, ..s.WHOLliSALE-'..MURDER AT-: blANT
, The folloWing is frcen an official; the edeades The; ioldierse tire", make
report of.'the sack of 'Dinant: • spre; .eteeva ‘volley 7into ,the
On Sunday'morning.:riext, the 23rd; he-pf Of tlioni. • Seyet-als citizens Pee
at? 6't3Ct the me -riling, eoldiers ca -ped this. double 'diseharges ' TheY
the 108theReginseat of infantess hi- ahammed.nclead mere.othan. two
yade,C1 ',the 'Ohara of the Premoness henetaanemadainge netotipaleeS, among,
trensiaittlglathers, droVe out the cell-, ..the,„-CorPse's,'and" When' este. -
gregatibise, ttep'artited. the women,. eeetled sa•virigeliffeniseIVCS: in the'
the' inef4.and shpt fifty of thaeastee :pghty-fonr.,:corpses.;.were left
Between -7 •and 9 the same Morning' orr the, sqtate,
the edidiers 'gave' themSelves up to bering -garden.- . • .e;
piflage •and. arson,, 'going from. use "The -.c.laY 02 August 23 was., nie.de
to house Ao driVing the Inhabitants. bloody several More massacres.;
•
into th.e 'street. Those who tried to Solcilited,di.tidoyerdd.sorde inhabitarit
espape were shot • About e I -
on rested either on the night of August
or- 21 OT on theefellowing ,morising.
• 'age and burning. continued all next
out '1:la'Y'O'n'th.;&-evening 'of the 22nd (Sat -
the iSrelaY) grOup of Isetyveen.A90, ;end
eht 450,rnesx was collected in of the
ow Chiirb-he 'not far from the ,ifailkfstfi'd
gat Sambre. ,e-- A German detachment
ks opened fire on. them, but as the
are shooting Was a slow business, the
on officers ordered up a meohine gun,
of, which soon swept off all the einhaispy
de' t7ea6rrts still left' etanding. • Many
ts,'„of' them- ,Were only wounded,. and,
rid hoping to -save their lives, got with
he difficulty, on their feet again,'Wlany
sis wounded still slay ismong the corpses.
k- Groans of pain and cries,for help
be were, hear,c1 in the bleeding -Kea -i. clef
p- several occasiona soldierseWalWeiii,
en to. such unhappy .einclivilirlals'S'411d'.
see stOpsded their groaos•With a bayonet
thrust. At night dome who still
survived' succeeded in crawling away.
Others Put an end to their own pain
at by rolling themselves into the neigh-
• boring.river.
•"Ali these facts have been estab-
na. fished by „depositions made by,
n, wounded men who succeeded in es-
ee caning. About 100 bodies were found'
te in th° essen.'
us • •
,cANADIANS WERE
te CRUCIFIED
As to the, treatment of' Canadian
11 soldiers a-a-eas:Of-eVidence is •
avail -
se able; of which thise.ie•aesample::
"lyteKinley
'e vis. boy, who spent a • Year exe.the
le French battlefieldajwith: the Anal:in-
n' lance Corps . of the. Amerfcan Redre ,
0r0oes7 told .'ofs h:dsnexperlericee a
at .honor. In -the 'eourie
t• a.ddi esse- he- :1`;'111::
e ' 'The. 'German wounded aer,:-Shown
h the
s to the injueed,•Prencla andrEnglieh"
Y s pl di ers. The C-ermane" are , non- corn -
niunicative, but at times they will
,They laugh atethe-',numben of
Anieri'dartS who % can lie seat; the
front...and say thy are only •menand
note Feel_ SolOiers: Many, of- the .Ger -
man wounded are yeey young mess."
sp,oke -of - the murder' of prIS-
oners who fell •into• German'hands.'
On one , occasi on, hee-saidasa esueshee.
of. 9Ctima'dlans Were ',Cantered bY the
Gerinans' andl, 1ater-2In day "•'-the
ge,nadiaes 'centered:the ;Gerina.n eels'
ieht and,found three of their ;contra
cfe s 'crucified to. treest" • •-•
" 'At" Toronto, 'Ifirst hand'rPoets 'of
brutalities .practised., and • :cdnditione
'In ' German prison camps,' partioularlY
'at' Gottingen, lIanoVer, were."' Iveri
n ee..of Alio Faubourg. ,St. P,ierre in the
morning, the, soldiery, 'driving before cellars. "Of breviery there and shot
them by. blows from the, 'butt ends of them
rifles rhen, Women," and children, • ,"Since. th'e previous evening a
pushed 'them 'all• 'into tile 'Parade 'erotyd of workmen belongin,g to the,
'faete :stir IA; .111triihele
tleetneelves„` along ewitli;-theini
,and children,' . the cellht4 -of' ' the
isnildinge . They.' had 0, ben " 'joined-
there-. b„ -y, Many,' neighbors and sev-
eral inetrib,ers of -the family ,of their
eniployer. • About • 6 o'clOali: ill. the"
evening these einhappy :people macle
tin their 'ininds ,corrie .out Of their
refuge, and- 'defiled trembling
'from tlie,eellor,Siltyithethe white , flag
In.: front. -e -e- They- -Were:. heirnecliatelY
-gel:zed and- violently- attaelte& . the
t was, ,shot on
Of these ianha.ppy men. ' ft, wae In the . spot. . Alrnost al,. the. men of
square, where they 'were, Itepseesese
oners till': 6 e'clock. in the eveelivire.
'The guara 'took .pleaseee in. reneat-,
ing te then). that. they 'would Soon be
shot •-' • • ••-
About 6' o'clock a captainsseparat
ed the men Trona ,the ',women ,tincl
..ch.ildren.,. The Women were placed
101 front of a rank Of infantry sol-
dlers, the, men were ranged along a
.wall. T•n0 front raiik, 61' ' thernWere•
"then, told' to Atubel, the' others re-
Maining:.Standing leehied ,theina,' A
platoon, of soldiers drew "hi lace
wantonly as they were standing in va
the road with their Mother Th rhe
wore thede or four years old and weee
killed with the bayonet. At Bdort
Meerbeek a German soldiel' was eet-i
to fire throe times at a little girl of
five years old. Having Failed 'ea hit
her he .subseilt4ently bayoneted) her.
A child of, three vvith storner,,h cut
'Open WaS lying near the houtie,','
/
4 BAVONL
Pcl info the oie
eel' se it awe
(.1
in that the Women cried Out "for the Faubeftirg "de Leffe' We ee exoeut-
rely foie, their husbands Sons,and et en nutcse, In another part of the
bretliers. The officer , ordered 'his townl twelve civilians were
men to fire. There' had been no in- a cellait In the nue en Ile a par-
t -411)(T nor any, pretence of alytic was shot in his arnichair. In
Abotit twenty of the ' Inhabitants the P.i.te En:Per' the-soldier:1' killed a
Were only wounded, but fell among yentig boy. of foutteen.",
-4',.?0 g
1., 1-,
WS 0
i1 .t> etill
th hen i
e baYofee
.... A Sd•C1)
WHOLE VILLAGE I.?0,T TO otlAm-u
intts:ittere at TamineS IC. deser.• ;man. artived
ed the d.arn6 toport 26110V/et , They,' there burnt
'Tantinel WaS a rich anct populetis, hetises, and 'Made,- ail' the biliabita,nts"
aittia.te. the' 12a 1)r. prISO,nerS. An • COrnbai,
tween Chariel.'01 and Nartitir. 'It. Wati broke )1St bet -Ween the' Gertrian
OcIAPOd P.Y.edetaelimetits •Preneh i.)0te..cl: 'VilaineStand at.41tOtikt".htld
&est ' 8 and si.1 t:rfv it,'reneb gunS,-,,Pla ed. in
'a t ••• At-eine:Oh Peed'
SHORES
: r
. • ..
tory of Cerman. Atrocities Reads Like Night -
Ages Vioiae-Eods of Litt!e Children
Impaled on Bayonets and Carried Before
Troops Until Infant Hearts Stopped Beat-
ing --Defenceless liuns and Old Men Cruci.
fied--Young Girls Buried Alive, with Their
Heads Above Ground and: ,Ileft to Die --
Story of Gerpian'; March - one Unceasing
List of Crimes Blacker Than Ever Stained
Record of Nero or Attila --Satan ffixnself
Iiirld St
ouand Aghast
coLD-BLOODE6,-.mAsAcizE.,„..At, SEA
An appalling story of cold-blooded boats -se, difficult mark.
massacres by Gerinans of crews of In the midst cif the rnasae"re ano'd
British, North Sea convoys in a' recent ther. British destroyer came "up' anj
battle la told by the Norwegian news- iruniediately attacked. but was soon
papers. . sunk in the unequal -struggle. The
„The Tidenategen said the 'German German flotilla then cruised\ back-,,
cruisers were observed at 6 o'clock ward and forward among the
In the morning and were thought to sinkizig steamers, pouring a. fresh.and
he British vessels, but at 7 o'clock, terrible rain of shells at a range 'of
when there was more light, -111:ey 100" "Yard's." One" "shell 'went through
• Suddenly began , shooting, and the, Swedish ship ".17-1rndar, explocline•
oronyeY was began
to see the'131-yet•I lifels'oat lhe Other side •aribs.
Ash' destroyer at the, sterile of fi`; the' 'killing alleite,occupants, fourteen' men
gonvoy begin to sink, although it .and three -,women.'
fought to the end. • The 'Germans The other lifeboat rowed back to
cruisers,after signaling the vesseleerescue the Captain and two wad -tree -
to stop, advanced on each side of the ses from the 'wreck. A shell struck
convoy, which- they,' swept all their the boat and killed five, of her ocx-'
guns at a range of les than 200 cUpantseonly the mate escaping'. by
"swimniing. The Wirndar was a mass
The German destroyers ea/no up of flames anti the two girls jumped
, and helped to spread and- destruc- into the sea The Captain was saved
tion :on the ..defenceless ships, shells by clinging.tO Wreckage. As the two
falling thick and fast. Tho Germans sicemg women Weresinking; an Eng -
'Were not content to sink the ships,' Usti ship hoisted"' the white flag".
'bnt shelled the Iifeboate and. every The answer of the Germans was a
„living thing •, coming their •;'- way shot which killed both girls, Twelve
Was -•mercilessly 'slaughtered. . -The menof another elite had just got
suevivors owed their lives to the high into the lifeboat when a shell killed
sea which, was ,running malting the them all
'HUNS A6MIT "WHITE SLAVERY
Confirmation now as been given
by the German Government, Itself. to
the 'Often denied reports current for
.the past year that young girls of
Alsacesl,orraine have been carried
away from their hontete.andeTfOceeloth
-labor for the German arm;,-, 4' '
From Switzerland today-tifere,canie
a• cable' report. of the • reply -made by
the Gerrhan Under-Secretary for War
to a cerrodaint ofan Alsatian deputy
In the Reichstag against mistreat-
ment of 'these young .girls. The Gov-
ernment's reply took the forth. -of an
official communique -which in .t sub-
stance' stated that the army admin-
istration had taken' measures to ae-
.sure the girls requisitioned in Alsace -
„Lorraine and actively, employedin
Work at the front the benefits of
Moral and, • religious • senperyi, sleet.
. Only, eight -and halfper"C'en-C4r the
'girls are less than seventeen 'years
of age,'"the deputy was, assured, and
scarcely one-half of them,have been
subjected b force to • work at the
German lines to perform manual la-
bor, of the -.hardest kind, in constant
danger of death. ,
The soldier's diary tells the story
as ,follows: .
• "'I am going to give another in- •
stance"cif the trieigletepey of the Ger-
sman:autlieritiese'eaSince the 18t11 in-
estant fifty...Wahl& andNyoung girls
"have been *oektng in Concrete' dugs
Mite at Lekcs.•'As Leke is in the zone
of, fire and. was shelled no• later 'than
yesterday, :this is another case ins-'
'which we cannot'understand the nc-
• tion „of. the authorities.. If this isn.'t
taken ,by way of reprietel, then it is
a shameful deed on the part of Ger-
triany,... which cannot, 'be surpassed
even in imagination.' .The civilia.n
papula,tion Of Leke •Was evacuated
three . or, lone weeks ago, and noly.
Wornen • compelledi.
to: *Ork-at 'the' Concrete dugouts of
the Yillage.
"'It is a shame that such steps
should ItiVe been taken, whether
there is reason for sit or not. I am
sure of the factsewhich 'state, for
. "The Germa,n Government, the reply it is my duty ,to. take a gang of
sets forth, 'evishing to meet the de- forty-seven *omen to Lek e every
sires of 'the, Alsatia-n population, had morning an4.bring 'them back in the
Issued oedee,that young' girls less ,evening.',...
than seventeen 'years of age, who • "An illiistration of the GeiMandis.
--havey been enrolled by force, should regard, for thealavis *of war and hu -
Ape, liberated at once. „inanity_ cans be •Jound in an incident
'This admission in realitY-Cesislenatie 'whinh'.•,accurred'.thiS 'other night near
the, German Government .for,:tiadie fteutlioiet forest.. The British heard'
in.White slavery.) cries of 'stretcher-bearers' from ,No
From. the Western 'front comes the Man's Land.. It naturally was as-
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following.' official report: ' slimed that a-wounded'•itetan was call-
"Belgian.women and .girls are be- Ing 'for-lielp;eand .Red Cease bearers •
Ing compelled to Istild concrete dug- rushed out through the ,darketess to .
outs under •artillery• fire.. The state- render 'aseiatance. They were " •Eshot
meat that this form of slavery has down .by- German. snipers, veltio''....usied
actually _been Practiced is. recorded this ruse to • entice them Into the. .
seinhoti•lweeadiraeraYen0t1ty aeapteule'ret7.ne iasc'eldhleer- .°PA. 'There'' have been many' other ca;ee
'longed to • a landwehr srecentlyesin German snipers
eyeap 'personally in charge -of :a', large hate';.-sliot..-dawli: Red Cross workeri
number' of these unfeetuk'a.tell.,stRel- deliberatelya"dettilte tho'. fact that
,gians, who were _,daily ,.,terded to- erman .Red Cross workers ' have
,gether and taken.. to a,..zone near the been.pesrinitted to work•nnmolested‘''' '
CANADIAN' PRISONERS BEHEADED
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At New York recently Capt. David each other line finder White flag&
!Pallon, • a • young Irish -Australian, As we neared, the Germans tiuddents
_Veteran 02 GailiPoll and .)3elgium, dropped to the 'ground, . and over
,thrilled 200 artists at the Society, of them pbured a hall of ma:4011e sun
Illustrators' dinner•in the Hetet des ,beillets. • . •
-4.rtistes -iYith the 'stork of2.:Germadi ire had some taill>a
a,trocities, he had sseen. , •,es' ; dugout and I
'In Belglum,".saiti, the yourleg'd,-' Was, ,alioutf to.lhonih. them, .they threw
itain, "1 taW a ,Mother Supe.ric ern-, np"?..tilefelastniits;-' crying Words. karag
ciFFd tb the door of her 'convent, ,erairs ,I•lowered: my aim.' and, as it,
and within, the bodies 'df ' noble itnixcildier. „bided, 'They are
women who had consecrated their tacking you from behindosire LOA?* ,
lives to. the, teaching of, this .young them .the.sbomb,and.we. cut our Way
and ministering to the poor, cut to 'out, as best We 'could. The only time
pieces and, mutilated. ' •.• ,German'.ories"'Icamerad° , is When
'In Belgium.] saw an aged black-. .he has no more, bombs, rfo..more carte
smith, his folded ,hands pinned to his rid:ease-no inoreechanoe to tee /mite
anvils •and a " note. on. his breast or bayonet.
proclaiming', in German •'"Ide Will • "Bnt we don't fool with- bombe any
shoe' no mole -.the. NIsreh IttsfrY or Y out from
eneinies." '• -ssse's •. schigoutY for ItaineradV '
ws
"When.„ it e came oureturnsoOr _keys afik-heit'n14115"titere are down there, ,
NXrent intothe trenches to. de. their. If the answer ponies 'back, 'Sig,' we
bit, AncI, ashas happened your chuck in 'a bomb and tell' theirs La
boys,
he- -trenches, were 'raided, and d_leride 'it.between. them • '
when the .:clash Was oyer of 'What has happened to . our
cue boys were miesing.• ' hapPen year hem e.
• Tide next day vve saW their -heads'. world won't- It -ricer( of it, until Mete
utting them from, their bodies, the of them begin to come trickling back.
oche& had auck them on bayonets Then.. you'll know their heads
bove t•the tiatiches, saaroo fifty -Were cut.'off,', bow' they 'Wore &Mile
ardS•lewayt That time, whene the ,nea, 'how-,,,ther,..rere Mutilated, Just
ord Came, ;our boys toeshoW howebrave''.Geemany in • and
p LI rs to •sendthem oyeio-tosand''',intd how greati'kultun • • • '
1e• anemy'Ss' treiseh'es.' ':',11jere we-:,.'24,11.itaVe .ejnet Seems' froin •Atleintit
ound our cotoradas. crucified.' and eiVhileein,the' the
ids.ei'Abria:civv.tlehdenanadr;d°{11ficerilwo!s-gonnittileknitilten;' -.S°41).rttleafh:thcireGhotei6rrinen6sinilth",ere-rliilevirn9Yreereo
O vowed .that never agaio .would the fat 'Of the s land, magnificent '
e ,spars 'German .',. huts, with, every ' cernfort—every.
-"Once,- In the •trenolies, 'I.asked 'a thing, even to -.the tennis Courts, that
omen captain for a tru,ee in 'Which '69 to 'make worth while.' eih
buey" the dead' and aid. tbe Wound- Germany, OUT' ' are beino
d.. He • agreed, and we -approached
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by Corporals Alexander ,Yetenan and B
whehr tIrleY. Ihedanie.,--.1iIi'' ehOetise".• 'Of' 't1
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Alla,n, lie:Donald, Toronto Highlan-
tiers, who were cantered at St.-Sulien0e
in ..April,e1915. Theste.sveee, peleOnerS :w
•In'(.4'sertiany,fer nineteen ".1riontbe; Ant;
etarvation. they wSre ; Sent - hense f
.throi.fgli-, Switzerla1:14-1. • ' ' - 'd
'Beck from the- grave,' that's 'me," 0
said ,Corporal Yetinah.'. "i. *D..5 tIffeen w
months at tllottingen, and thre mouths„, IA!
at '.1tIrtnitheirt,' When 'I Waif "wafting! '
te he Sent to SNVItzei.lEtind, .1•Weiebecl 0
65 ponnds when I was •captured, and to
bet, "^" " . 'poor foocl,. 'ad' .'treal,Ment et
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and eo n dill on s of tb e carnste-,V ,Wae.,
dostin te 98 'pounds
en was sent :to
Switzerlend in August 1316 There f
I started to Oleic tip, and T now'weigh'
145. T Came, beirrici with tuberculosis. These are. not eiikaatiOlial'ooldiers yarns but
Thc,,,,,,,, and the Poor food brought, Ad. _ . 1 r „,
ie and it Wes, a wonder I did not ozriclai yacts.
din. The food was not fit for pigs," •
I cloithi if 'Ow y would. eat I 1.
. I saw Ainbaueador Gerard of the
TTell ed Ste I eti a I''' t be'l\l'annbelm mann, i IS IS KV141"LIR,t,
'pre visited the 'Place anci,nierfe aneinsl
speelam, but tl:e TItuts fixed 'things .,. "-
sencloworlt in einniectIon uaLli t altiese - •
no When ile es'llo-I olu'2•so'l'e Ile, dla THIS IS THE THING .
eked and eilliled `Pirel a,htlletVlete.'•
is
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l'',11fIsfa'''''' It'tseti.t•ecr't)./.en hit, ot:tni*S14fel, and ' NG OVERSEA.
17,,o,,,,,:r1111,(1,1:?;tillt, 11,14 we,liflo Ow ,,
ASS'
• ..„,„.• . . .MEN ARE FIGHT -
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