GERMANS IN KALISZ
HOSTAGE SHOT Londno, Wednesday The Daily Telegraph's Warsaw correspondent states that the Germans have fined Kalisz, on the R issian-Po-land frontier, £SOOO They shot bi'x of the fo mcßt inhabitants, detained as hostages, on a trivial accusation, and also bombarded the town During a German fireworks display, the Town Hall and many buildings were burnt Sokolva, tho treasurer's wife at Kaliss, states that the Germans shot her husband because he destroyed half-a-million roubles in paper money. They Blso shot a police inspector and several officials The Germans jokingly requested the inhabitants to stand in a row and shot them They also bombarded the town with machine guns, killing several women The whereabouts of the officials was obtained by a s gang of spies, some of whom were detained dreßßed as women
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 699, 29 August 1914, Page 5
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134GERMANS IN KALISZ King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 699, 29 August 1914, Page 5
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