ATROCITIES TO ORDER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1577, 15 July 1916, Page 2

ATROCITIES TO ORDER.

A WOMAN doctor, Mrs Dickinson Bony, who has seen considerable service in Sorvia, says n question that often presented itself to her was: “What is the real psychology and explanation of the atrocities committed in Ibis war in accordance with the Herman theory of ‘friglitfulness?’ There is indubitable evidence that horrible atrocities were practiced at Shabalz and elsewhere in the first invasion of; Servia by Austrian troops of Magyar and Herman nationality. It is admitted that on subsequent invasions there were no atrocities, and the Magyars we came across behaved in what may be described as an exemplary manner. 'Phis was certainly not due to the presence of restraint, for they were constantly to be met with wandering; about without officers. It decidedly tends to show that the responsibility for atrocities is to be laid at the doors of those in authority, more than on the perpetrators, and that if the hetc hnmaiuc is present iu most natures it requires not merely lei t ing loose but considerable prodding before it comes out of its hidden dwelling-place and displays its horrors.”