A GHASTLY REPORT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2356, 12 January 1915, Page 5

A GHASTLY REPORT

GERMAN ATRO6ITIES LAID BARE ("Times" and Sydney "San" Services.) , London, January 10. _ 'A' summary of tie Belgian Commission's report on German atrocities shows that rape, with every imaginable refinement of cruelty and bestiality, marked the passage of the Huns with ghastly frequency. Irrefutable evidencehas been collected, but the stories of rape are so horrible in detail that their publication .is almost impossible except for the necessity of showing to the fullest extent'the nature -of the wild beasts fighting under the German flag for German ideals of civilisation. It has been established beyond doubt that incendiarism, murder, and pillage are part of tho German military equipment as definitely as big guns. For tlioso crimes tho highest officers in the German Army must bo-held responsible before'history. The "Times," in a leading article commenting on the atrocities, says: "In all countries where a-sense of common humanity exists they (the stories of the atrocities) will bo read with emotion and i horror."

, FOR PUBLIC PERUSAL. (Rec. January 11, 0.0 p.m.) London, January 10. ' Tha French Government is printing Jliiftdrods of tioueoniv ei.xeew+n^ef

[the German atrocities, and plaoingtheni r at the disposal of neutral countries.— . ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.);