BRUTAL MASSACRE
432 TOWNSPEOPLE SHOI ANOTHER TOWN BURNT ~ (Rec. September 24, 1.5 a.m.) London, September 22. The "Daily Chronicle" saye an eyewitness has sworn a statement which reveals that tho mostbrutal massacres were perpetrated at Tamihee, halfway between Namur and Charleroi. Only one house in the town was not burnt. The_ Germans selected 432 of the inhabitants, and gave them time for confession, and then killed them with mitrailleuses, the number, including the aged burgomaster and the two young daughters of a prominent citizen. The rest of the inhabitants were forced to bury their fellow citizens. ' ■ .'.•
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2263, 24 September 1914, Page 5
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96BRUTAL MASSACRE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2263, 24 September 1914, Page 5
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