TEUTONIC BARBARISM.
BELGIAN CLERGY MALTREATED Received this day, 8.45 a.m. "-.-.,- London, Friday. The Belgian Legation has .issued a record of the maltreatment of the Catholic clergy in Belgium, including an invalid octogenarian at Buechen, cabled on the 6th. He was accused of firfng at the Germans, thrown into a ditch, dragged in the streets by the legs and shot. A priest at . Gelrod* was beaten with a rifle butt until the blood dripped. • He was then shot and thrown into the river. Twenty-six innocent priests were killed in the Malines diocese, ten at Liege, twenty at Namur, and three at Tourn3i.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 735, 9 January 1915, Page 5
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101TEUTONIC BARBARISM. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 735, 9 January 1915, Page 5
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