GERMAN BRUTALITY
BELGIAN VILLAGERS SHOT DOWN
FRENCH MAYOR MURDERED
Brussels, August 20. The Mayor of Linsmeau, near Tirleniont, officially reports that German hussars, one of whose officers was shot b.y a Belgian patrol, accused civilians of shooting him, and slot two villagers as spies, murdered a man and his wife, ignited their home, and cast the bodies into the flames. . They then shot thrro others, and finally tied a. number by tho feet to mnfitino cftiij oiii 'drnssed "their neadf. aluug tho wound, eiulif dyius,, tjeroral
others had their ears blown off by revolvers. (ltec. August 21, 6.3 p.m.) /Paris, August 20, evening.' lb,is officially reported that the Germans .murdered eleven pea-sons nt Badon-viller-(a French town on the frontier of Germany, south-east of Luncville); including the Mayor and his wife. Thnv also burned 78 houses. They, also killed five persons, including' a man,.and a woman aged 74 ;it Bremeuil.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2235, 22 August 1914, Page 7
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149GERMAN BRUTALITY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2235, 22 August 1914, Page 7
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