THE WAY OF THE HUNS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2391, 22 February 1915, Page 6

THE WAY OF THE HUNS

SWORN EVIDENCE OP AWFUL ATROCITIES • : . ' ' - .London, February-19. Before the.;Be]gian Commission, sworn. . testimony was given of rape, massacre, pillage, incendiarism, murder of priests, and odious profanation of churches.

' At service, eighteen men, were' placed 5n a row,-including ,boys of sixteen and seventeen.. > They were condemned■ to be shot amid the shrieks of women cry- : jng: '"'Shoot,me with my.'husband 1" ,v' The men were lined up and the sol- , 'diers fired. Manyjvere only wounded, ■ and were finished off by having their skulls battered with' the; rifle-butts. <vTho massacre over, the Germans plunv 3ered the c6rpses'.-r-(,','.Times" and Sydney "Sun'';.Sqrv-ices.). , A FURTHER REPORT. ;' JUMPED AT THE'least noise. (Rcc. February 21, 5;25 p.m.) London,. February 20. ■ ■ The Belgian official Commission, in ■:a-furtHer ; report on the violation of the i rules- of war, says that the, often repeated that the civil population was intending to' rise 'and . assassinate : ■ them, that they ended by believing it. They lived m a state of; nervous ap- ; prehension when away from the 'fight-' ingline.: The least made them jump,' and tho bursting of a bicyclo ■tire: provoked the inevitable cry, "The Belgians are firing upon us!" with the sinister consequences of, pillage, murder, and ihcendiarism.--;("Times" and' Sydney "Sun" Services.)

WAR FEVER IN ITALY ANOTHER DEMONSTRATION ' Rome, February 19. The Chamber of Deputies has re-open-&3.; : ; Thousands of people, made a demonstration in favour of 1 , war, and tried to jattack the Austrian Embassy. : ; The troops dispersed them. WHEN THE WAR WILL END BEFORE AUTUMN SETS IN (Rec. February 21, 5.50 p.m.)' New York, February 20. Mr. Jacob Schiff informed tlie iPeaco Society that he anticipated the war would end before the Autumn, owing to the economic strain. . .. Ho did not think Germany would accept Ainerica as a mediator, because the United .States was not sofficiently Beutral. " ■

•Mr. Jacob Henry Schiff is a banker, and was boru at Frankfort-on-the-•Main, Germany, in 1847, . and went 1 to . tho United States in . 1865,. settling in New York. He is a member of the firm of Kuhn Loeb and C 0.,, bankers, •New York. He 'is a' trustee.,of tho •Baron do Hirsch Fund. He is a great ■ philanthropist.