ABUSE OF THE RED CROSS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2282, 16 October 1914, Page 5

ABUSE OF THE RED CROSS

, GERMAN OFFICERS SHOT DISGUISED AS DOCTORS (Rec. October 15, 10.55 p.m.)' Paris, October 15. ■When the French entered Amiens the cavalry overtook a Red Cross convoyj with forty-eight medical officers. The General "welcomed the prisoners; and promised to send them to Geneva to be exchanged for French medical officers. When , tno convoy was searched, arms and ammunition and a quantity of explosives were, found, and the Red Cross men explained that they carried arms for self-protection. The French General accepted tlio explanation, saying, "Your army has strange customs." That evening the French medical officers entertained the prisoners and the conversation turned on the treatment of wounds. Tho French doctors noticed tliat a number of the Germans wore strangely silent, and 'communicated thoir suspicions to the French General, who ordered each to be privately asked some simple questions on medical science. Five passed the ordeal, but the sixth was utterly ignorant. Finally a committee of French doctors convicted eleven of misusing the Red Gross; Thoy were 6liot at daybreak. HOSPITAL SYSTEMATICALLY SHELLED. \ (Rec.- October 15, 10.80 p.m.) Paris, October 14. The Germans systematically shelled tlio Red CroS3 hospital at Braisne, near Soissons, and killed two' British nurses. The Germans destroyed nine hundred out of twelve kindred nouses.'