WAR'S RED PAGE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2407, 12 March 1915, Page 5

WAR'S RED PAGE

HUN " FRIGHTFULNESS " IN FRANCE . (Rec. March 11, 8.50 p.m.) Paris, March 11. The second report of the 'Commission which ia : inquiring into the German atrocities in Franco states that civilians of all ages have been carried off, husbands being separated from their wives, and parents from their children. Of nineteen inhabitants of the Marne district who were dispatched to Germany, four were killed en route because they fell behind, exhausted. They received "two meals in four days, and were frequently struck by fists and sticks. Two thousand men were marching to G'ravelines for medical examination when the Germans attacked with ma-chine-guns. Several were killed.

_ Women were imprisoned for a month in a church at Combes, sleeping in pews. The sanitary conditions were terrible. A workman wno broke a pane of glass was bayoneted to death. A. HORRIFYING CHARGE. (Rec. March 12, 0.45 a.m.) Paris, March 11. The report on German atrocities also deals , with the case of ten thousand French women, children and aged men who were recently returned to France from twenty-eight German concentration camps. All were subjected to much brutality, and were left foodless for long periods. Some were wilfully exposed to French artillery fire; several were massacred for slight 4 offences, and nearly all were verminous. Nothing was done to prevent sickness and death. ' The report accuses the Germans of scientifically spreading consumption germs among the prisoners !