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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 August 1916, Page 3

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(.Received This Day 2 p.m.) (AustraliaJVew Zealand Cable Service). GEIUIAN COUN T ER-ATTACKS. London. August 23. Sir Douglas llaig has reported that two determined oountcr-atitack.s were made southward ol ThiepvaL resulting in lieawy German losses. MEDALS FOR NEW ZEALA * EllS. Military medals have been awarded to the following members of the New Zealand infantry Sergt. L. K. Nicliolas, Corporal W. D. Hell, Privates l'\ Bridgwell and A. KennedySTOR.IES Ol'' TCKKISII AT'ROOU' TIES. I Professor Graeter and Dr. V.epage. German teachers of Armenian children at Aleppo, ha;ve protested to the German Foreign Office in October against Turkish Germany ignored the appeal and the tcncher rc- | signed. They now have authorised the publication of what they wrote, as follows"How can we teach from the Bible, when women, boys and girls, almost naked, are dying by scores in the neighbourhood ? When, of 2000 lieajthy peasant women, driven from the highlands, all that remains of them here is forty or fifty. The guards ravish the beautiful women, and others die of hunger, thirst and floggings. Those lying lielpless close to water aio not allowed to drink. Europeans aro not allowed to distribute food to tho Armenians. Over one hundred corpses daily are carried out of Aleppo. Al! this is happening under the eyes of

high Turkish officials. Fifty skeletons are now lying in the courtyard near the school; they are alive, but all know |no longer bow to eat. It given bread they push it away, groaning. and awaiting deliverance by death. The natives say this is a German doctrine. Our prestige in the East is at stake. Even Turks and Arabs show disapproval when brutal 'Turkish soldiers drive Armenians through the town flogging pregnant women. More frightful massacres must be expected endangering Germany's good name."