CRUCIFIED KITTEN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 44, 16 November 1918, Page 13

CRUCIFIED KITTEN

Tho "Morning Post" publishes the folr lowing, stating lhivt\its tiuthoiiticity. may boi taken as unquestionable:'—''j&.uring tho recent operations of tho Allies it fell to tho' Fourth British Army to rcoccnuy a town when tho Germans retreated, from it. As our troops, wero making their way through tho war-scarred streets of tho town a group of them woro 'arrested by a sight that startled arid shocked even men. inured to tho horrors of war. . On a door of one of tho houses a kitten was hang-: ing by ils foropaws, which Lad been nailed to the wood. The wretched creature, which nirght have boon--where' it was found at least an hour or two, was mowing pitoously in its agony and struggling desperately with its hindlogs to, Toleaso itself. With a natural -instinct of pity for a suffering animal, ono" of tho British' soldiers rushed forward ' to. release tho unhappy kitten. Ho pulled out the nails that pierced its paws, 'but in tho moment that he did so thero was a flash and a roar, and his mutilated and dismembered body was flu.ng aeross.the i-treet; A hidden explosive charge had been set off by the withdrawal of the nails. The retreating Hun had laid his trap, and had baited it with tho kitten..nailed to the door. Ho calculated that'such an appeal to British humanity would be iriresietiblo; and he was right.