THE TORTURERS.
FEROCIOUS GERMAN CRUELTY
A remarkable statement was made by Mr Handel Booth in the House ot Commons in a recent debate as to the treatment of prisoners by the Germans. He said: ‘T have in my home at the present time Belgian men short of hands and legs, which have been cut off by those dreadful people because these Belgian working men were called on short notice to defend their homes. The Germans will go their own way. They have been smitten with a sort of frenzied madness. They win get worse and worse, and we have got to prepare ourselves and to stool our nerves for what has to come." He ridiculed the idea of appealing to neutrals on behalf of the prisoners, pointing out that most of the neutral Powers, the United States included, had not attempted, to protect the Belgians.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3982, 15 July 1915, Page 5
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