MEN BURIED ALIVE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 253, 4 December 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)

MEN BURIED ALIVE.

TALES OF GERMAN CUCELTY TOLD BY PHIEBTS.

Th«, following story of German cruelty was related by Fathers Van Heybeck and Butage, two friars of the Kedemp.tionis't order, who arrived at Ostcnd on September 15. At Maiines u number of men and some children were assembled in a school. The Germans entered under the pretext that Belgian soldiers were in hiding in the building. They threatened to kill everybody there, and subsequently set lire to two adjoining houses.

At Heven they heaped straw around a mill and fired it. Alter compelling tho owner to watch his burning property, they shot him, and then compelled his wife to sit down on her husband's body.

At Bucken, Belgian wounded wore buried alive because they refused to reveal the whereabouts oi their companions in amis. After the Germans had left, the inhabitants dlisiutelrred the nun, who were still breathing. In a village near Louvain the priests having summoned the population to gather in the church and tho priests' residence, subsequently trailed on tho German officers, to whom they gave their word of honour that no hostile aote would be committed by any of the villagers. Tho officers amused themselves by laughing and jeering at the priests for a while, and then ordered them to bring round ten men so that they might be killed by way of example. The soldiers then made them run t>eforo them while they fired their rifles in the air. Some of the people left in the church went mad with terror.

The Germans at Malinos killed a man. and afterwards tied his, child to the dead body.

A BEAK'S REMORSE

The big black bear, "Bob." oMhe menagerie in Central Park. New York, committed suicide in th 0 presence of a large numbtr of sp-.etutor.s a few days ago. Mr Snyder, the head keeper, says that the animal recently stopped taking food, and in other ways showed wgin of remorse at having ntt-.mgled hi.-. mate. Tlie other morning Bob elimb<d to tlie top of the rocky ledge in the rear of the den. and deliberately threw himself backward to the asphalt flooring below. ,'i distance of twenty feet. He broke his nock and died in a few minutes.

The tobacco monopoly ha- yielded the Au.-trian fJowrnment the enormous not profit of £5.000.000 for one year.