MARTYRS FOR THEIR COUNTRY
BELGIAN VICTIMS OF HUN .FIRING SQUABS. London, January 13. It is learned from official Belgian sources that 58 executions were carried out in Belgium recently, making a total of 170 for the year, ail for ■ patriotic crimes. Tho victims include ten women and girls, three between fourteen and sixteen years of age, and several boys under, twenty. All were supposed to °The' Germans forced two girls to witness the death of their mother and father, and shot the girls when they refused to give information. Another E irl of sixteen, who was carrying etters to the frontier, pleaded for her life, and at tho last ™™»* »«"$£ while still knceling.-Aus.-N.Z. Uolo Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 95, 15 January 1918, Page 5
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114MARTYRS FOR THEIR COUNTRY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 95, 15 January 1918, Page 5
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