GERMAN ATROCITIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 95, 16 January 1919, Page 5

GERMAN ATROCITIES

WORSE THAN ENTENTE SUSPECTED REVELATIONS OP ENEMX ARCHIVES Bγ Telegraph-Press Aseooiation-CoDyriclit ■ (Rec. January 15, 11.5 p.m.) London, January 13. The "Manchester Guardian's" correspondent at Berlin states that owing to the energy and initiative of Leopold, a member of the Berlin Soviet Committee, early in the revolution, the archives covering . the German, occupation of Belgium and France, during the forced evacuation', were saved. Many wagon-loads were hurried off and were in danger of being spirited away, many having an interest in suppressing them, but Leopold inaugurated a systematic search of the archives, despite the opposition of von Drelancken, Chief of the German Political Department at Brussels. The documents show that the atrocities were far worse than the Entente suspected. They contain particularly revolting fletails of the Cavell case, in which General Sauberrzwei behaved\as a brute and a ruffian, The documents show that the Germans carried off the mattresses of all Belgians under seventy years of age. It. is expected that the documents will prove that German high officials concerned with American relief enriched themselves the expense of the starving Belgians.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■