THE HUNS IN POLAND.
GHASTLY TALE OF OUTRAGES. PARIS, July 22. ,\l Vadaud, corrcsnondcnt of the '‘.Journal” states that in numerous Polish villages the Germans compelled the fanners to watch their little daughters outraged by thirty or forty soldiers, led by officers. Several voting girls escaped and drowned themselves, whereon the Germans burned many houses. They thrashed* - and burned 1 alive a priest* who interfered. At several places wounded Russians were tortured. drenched in petrol, shut in barns and burned alive. , It is reported that five noble I olish ladies at Vienna have been convicted of espionage and hanged by the neck. The judge who presided at the trial was obliged to see the sentence, carried out. The spectacle was so harrowing that ho collapsed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3990, 24 July 1915, Page 5
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