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RAPINE AND MURDER IN AFRICA

THE RED TRAIL OF THE HUN Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, August !2. A Bluo Book, detailing Herman atrocities ' in Africa, based on reports from the Camercons and Hast and < SouthWest Africa, includes some shocking photographs. Among theui is a picture ot a native, with his hands practically severed, and his body covered with creat gashes. ♦ The book contains hundreds of affidavits mad© by eye-witnesses, covering thousands of atrocities and murder?. These includo cases of men beaten to death, women in a pitiable condition with deep "machctc" wounds 011 -their shoulders, hands, and legs, scores of cases of deliberate mutilations, and of women killed with axes and bayonets. It is evident that the German European and native troops aliko engaged in a policy of murder and rapine. Tho Blue Book covers a German Array Order of October, 1011, accusing tho Dualas of attacking tlio Germans, and ordering the destruction of all tho villages. Tho order continues: "Prisoners must only be taken when they arc caught redhanded, and can legally bo tried and condemned to death." Another order instructed tho troops to kill every native tin sight. . The German authorities explained m writing tliut ths British might cor.fjner thecounlry, but would find i q inhabitants. In all cases, tho atrocities were committed against non-combatants, including many innocent women and children.

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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2841, 4 August 1916, Page 5

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RAPINE AND MURDER IN AFRICA Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2841, 4 August 1916, Page 5

RAPINE AND MURDER IN AFRICA Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2841, 4 August 1916, Page 5

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