GERMAN BRUTALITY
INSTANCES FROM FRANCE Paris, September 17. . Senator Paullist relates that the Ger* mans pcoupyiug Lourches got drunk systematically. . A French, sergeant, who was lying in a house wounded, was maddened by a German lieutenant's insults. A French woman seized a revolver and shot the lieutenant, whereupon the captain ordered i her arrest. Fifteen miners, accused of firing at the Germans, were taken in couples and shot. A wounded sergeant lay nn tho ground awaiting his turn, whenEmile Des'pres, aged 14, gave him a glass of water. A German captain beat D'espres with the flat of his sword, and said: "You will bo shot with the rest." Finally only Despres and tho sergeant remained alive The lad's eyus were, bandaged, and he was made to kneel. Tho captain waited a few minutes and then ordered tit? bandago to be removed. Ho said: "You wanted to give tho sergeant a drink; you will give him a bullet instead. Your life will be spared if you kill him." The boy pretended to aim 'tho rifle at the sergeant, but turned and killed the captain instead. Despres and the sergeant were immediately riddled with bullets and stabbed with bayonets.
SYSTEMATIC FIRE-RAISING,
Antworp, September 17. The authorities captured machines used at Termonde for spraying kerosene through broken windows of houses which the Germans intended to burn in revenge for reverses. Following the machines came soldiers flu-owing lighted fuses on the kerosene. One of the spraying machines was driven by a motor, the others were operated by hand.
SHOT FOR CARRYING A WOUNDED MAN... Coneva, September 17. After a fierce fight in the Vosges, a German found a French soldier unconscious, shouldered him, and was conveying him to an ambulance when another German soldier shouted: "You are carrying a dirty Frenchman," and shot the German in the bnck The bearer and his burden fell, and lay side by side for long hours. They were rescued on the arrival of French troops, and sent to a hospital in Savoy, where they are now lying in adjoining beds.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2259, 19 September 1914, Page 7
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342GERMAN BRUTALITY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2259, 19 September 1914, Page 7
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