GERMAN ATROCITIES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 69, 13 August 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

GERMAN ATROCITIES.

Supplementing and amplifying the heart-piercing report ot Lord Bivce•» Committee on outrages and atiouties committed by the German Army in Belgium and France, 1 rolessor J. H. Morgan, in the ''Nineteenth Centuij for .June, gives a terrible and poignant account of his personal experiences as an official investigator m north-east-i rn France into alleged breaches ot the laws of war by the German troops. Liberal use of the material accumulated by Professor Morgan has been made by Lord Rryce's Committee, says the London "Daily Graphic , but in his contribution to the "Nineteenth Century" ho covers new ground. A jurist of distinction, accustomed to we'gti evidence and to take a critical view ot men and things, he is not the type or man to accept with blind credulity c.ery ta'.e told by an ind'gnant soldier or a frightened refugee. His niet.iod r.f inquiry was severely judicial, rrom it th n re emerges indubitable evidence of wholesale atrocities that w'll stamp ihe German Army with infanmy tor all time. Proof is cited from field orders and other entries in the diaries ot dead or captured Germans of a " malignant frenzy" against Brtish troops; _an<t there is tragic evidence that some British prisoners were killed is coid blood by their barbarous foe. As for trie crimes against noncombatants, against innocent women, girls, and feeble old men, they are so dreadful as to suggest that they must have been committed bv devils incarsate, not by men. Wo hope that Professor Morgan s article will be reprinted for widespread circulation in neutral countries, so that the world may know to what an infernal state of mind Germany has been reduced by the cult of iniiitniism, and by foul doctrines of State necessity as a pretext and as excuse for any wickedness. Prof-ssor Morgan says with truth that in this war "the Germans have broken all laws, human and divine." A whole nat on has lu'CQ taught with pa-sionate method, through a long coure of years, that v.ar is a normal state of civilisation; that the lus of conquest and lie arrogance of race are be most precious virtues. "On this Dear Sea tru't the German peop'e have been fed for .1 generation, until they are rotten to the core."