GERMAN BARBARITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2278, 12 October 1914, Page 6

GERMAN BARBARITIES

INQUIRY INTO BELGIAN '-EXCESSES ~ j ' COMMISSION'S REPORT <Ree. October 11, 9.35 p.m.) ,; ; - London; October, 10. , The Press Bureau.states that the report of the Belgian Commission on the : excesses: at Aerschot .were due to the Regular Army and tlie Landsturm, who '.■-.were" equally guilty. .• " . 'Murders, looting, rapes; and'attacks ott persons and property ceased only when the Belgians re-entered Aerschot. ■ 'A 'wounded Belgian soldier affirms that with: twenty-seven other prisoners he was forced to walk in front of the Germans along the road on the banks of the Demer, when the Germans fired killing many. The narrator ■ feigned death, and when, the Germans discovered him they were about to shoot him when an. officer, said he_ was not worth a bullet and to throw-him into.the rivet This was done and.the Belgian escaped ■by remaining in. the .water for a day, only:his head emerging. Only one other prisoner escaped. There is corroborative evidence, by an inhabitant \of the . place.that the bullet which tilled a German general came fronv the. Germane and not from the Burgomaster's son. ' 'ABOMINABLE, OUTRAGES. , (Rec. October 11; 4.20 p.m.) ■-."■■.•-;! Paris, October 10. Mr. Choetirn, a San Francisco lawyer, | who visited the villages in the Vosges, has furnished a.terrible report of German barbarities inflicted on civilians of . all ages and sexefe,'. and .abominable : atrocities on women. In nearly all the villages the. buildings ■ were set alight "'with petroleum and burnt. ZOUAVES AS, IRREGULARS. .' v (Reo, flctoberil, 3.10 p.m.) '-.■.'". Bordeaux, October 10. , A wounded Zouave, a survivor of a party of ninety,' asserts that the Germans deliberately shot his comrades declaring them to bo irregulars. . : '■■'■-■ 'AFFRONT-TO ARGENTINA. " ? (Rec. October 11, 10.30 a.m.) Buenos Ayres, October 9. ' Messages from Amsterdam state that the Germans at Dinant shot Senor Himrner, the Vice-Consul for Argentina, on his own doorstep and also-twenty of "'".,: his workmen; although they were unarmed. The Argentino flag was also -.thrown into the street. The public is Incensed at the Argentine Government's delay in obtaining satisfaction., VILLAGERS THROWN INTO THE .-■-■■ ■;•■ FLAMES. .-'.. Paris, October 9. The pocket book of an officer of a Saxon regiment, which "was found, contained particulars- of , outrages. A cyclist at the village of Guydoshus pretelided to.have been shot at, and for this the village was fired and all the inhabitants thrown into the flames.-The writer states that the. commander was responsible.' He- could have prevented . the pillaging and destruction. V