GHASTLY ATROCITIES
GERMAN BRUTALITIES EXPOSED REVELATIONS BY KING ALBERTS PHYSICIAN | London, February 13. A special number of "The Field" *8 devoted to German brutalities, illustrated by photographs. King Albert's physician elates that ho personally investigated a case of a heap of dead bodies piled up at Dinant. A German ofEcer had placed ontop of the pile a live child, whose legs were wedged in by corpses. He photographed the gruesome exhibit. Not a single village escaped outrages. In numerous places citizens were forced to dig their own graves before they were shot. The owner of a country house at? Raemsdonck did everything to serve his guests. During dinner lie was lashed to a chair and his two daughters were stripped and made to serve dinner naked. When the officers were done with them the girls were thrown, to the troops. One committed suicideand the other went mad. A priest-was tied naked at Anderina to a gun in tho presence of women. The gun was discharged, and the priest died from the shock of the detonation. The doctor continues : "Remember, all you Englishmen, if the Germans ever invade your country, this is what'they will do to English women."—("Times'and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ,
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2386, 16 February 1915, Page 5
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200GHASTLY ATROCITIES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2386, 16 February 1915, Page 5
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