MURDERS OP BRITISH SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2465, 19 May 1915, Page 5

MURDERS OP BRITISH SOLDIERS

THE RECENT DISCLOSURES BY DESERTERS A BOXING NIGHT CRIME Rotterdam, May 17. M. J. Martin, editor of the Rottordamsche "Nieuwsblad," has since interviewed several Gorman deserters, lie concludes that most of the murders were committed 011 the night of December 20. The officers guilty in these: cases include von Lassowitz, von tiering, Biiumgartnei', and Kosiuski. Tho latter was hilled by his own men.

On May 11 last the Press Bureau published :>• dispatch from the British Minister at The Hague, enclosing a sworn declaration by M. J. Martin,"Who stated that Richard Lorenz, a deserter, told 'him that Prince Rupprecht's Bavarians were formally ordered to make no British prisoners. 11l one case forty Britishers were burned alive, and the men who committed the atrocity received medals. KahUnann, a deserter, stated that Britishers wer© brought to headquarters with their hands bound behind their backs and eyes bandaged, and executed under the supervision of commanding, officers, without being told that they -would bo shot. M. Vaditmar, a newspaper correspondent, in a declaration, stated that ICuller told him his company had shot twonty-four British prisoners because they belonged to a regiment which blew up a bridge over the Scheldt when many German troops were crossing in pursuit of the retreating British Army. All of the men were placed against the wall and shot one after another at AYarviclc, under an order of Major Hofman. On another occasion a British officer and. four soldiers, -who sniTendeied, were shot at a castle at Hollebecke after a hand-to-hand fight. A CRUCIFIED CANADIAN FIERCE COURAGE OF REVENGE. London, May 17. An officer of the Leicestershire Regiment writes that the Canadians were forced to abandon in a wood a wounded man, who managed to crawl to the main body with the news that a popular Major had been crucified, whereupon a. subaltern gathered a party of enraged Canadians and proposed to recapture the wood. Tho contagion 'of courage spread rapidly. Tho sth Leicester Territorials and others joined in the attacks. When the wood was taken, the Leicesters found that one of their men had been similarly crucified. The courage of the Canadians and Leicesters resulted in the recapture of four guns. AN ATROCITY MUSEUM. (Rec. May 18, 6.35 p.m.) London, May 17. The Royal United Service Institute is arranging a museum for tho display of German atrocity exhibits.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) TO ASSIST REGRUITINC. REPORTS OF GERMAN ATROCITIES TO BE CIRCULATED. Sydney, May 18. With a view to assisting enlistment, Mr. Holrnan (State Premier) will circulate a portion of the French Commission's report on the German atrocities in Northern France. He says: "It is a horrifying document, and no one reading extracts from this report will oppose any steps calculated to brill" the authors of the outrages to justice."

FOOTBALLERS FOB THE FRONT. Sydney, May 18. Swcn hundred arid forty Rugby Unionists have enlisted.