GERMAN BARBARITY
' -,i .I. ! t CIVILIANS MURDERED AND MUTILATED ; yr " a committee's report ' I - -1 , i — ' a'.' '(Rec August 26, 9.85 p.m.) i <> p i- London, August 26, morning. "The Press Bureau publishes Belgium's pf6te'st'' against German barbarißm, 'Based on 'the report of a Committee or Inquiry, tno members of which included tho Clnef Justice, Van Iseghem, other Judges, and University Professors i > The committee details 6cores of cases of the murder of civilians and of woundod'soldiers on tho evidence of reliable eye- witnesses. , , , Eleven peasants''; at- Liiismeau had their- skulls broken with the butts of rifles At Oismael several 'of the inhabitants -were horribly mutilated. The Germans shot a scoro of prominent citizens at-'Aerschot, and burnt the town in vengeance for the gallant defence by thgi Belgi»n,troQp3 , . < J>Xhe Press''Bureau comments: "The ' atrocities an tho villages appear to have been'done with the deliberate intention of terrorising tho people, thus making it unnecessary to leave troops to protect > tho communications.".
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2239, 27 August 1914, Page 6
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159GERMAN BARBARITY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2239, 27 August 1914, Page 6
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