GERMAN OUTRAGES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2354, 9 January 1915, Page 7

GERMAN OUTRAGES

A FRENCH REPORT (Reo. January 8, 9.35 p.m.) Paris, January 8. The French Commissioners' report on the Germans' violation of international law states: —"Never has' a war among civilised nations borne such a savage ferocious character as that waged by Germany. Pillage, robbery, incendiarism, and murder are the enemy's current practice, denoting an astonishing retrogression in German mentality 6ince 1870. "Outrages on women and girls are unprecedented. Soldiers and officers finish off wounded, mercilessly, and kill inoffensive inhabitants irrespective of. age and sex." TERRIBLE MASSACRES. BARBAROUS BAVARIANS. (Reo. January 9, 1.25 a.m.) London, January 8. The Commission reports that the most terrible massacre in France was that at Gerbevillers, in the Vosges, where, on August 24, the Bavarians burst into houses; shooting and stab•bing, regardless of'age or sex. Over . four hundred houses were destroyed and fifty persons were massacred in their homes. Many nameless offences were committed. There was,another horrible butchery at Morendy, in the Department of Meurthe-Moselle. The Germans fired a building where many people were hidden in the cellars, and shot them like rats as they emerged, Whole families were exterminated.