CRUCIFIED BY THE HUNS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 414, 1 October 1918, Page 1

CRUCIFIED BY THE HUNS.

The story told by a Salvation Army worker on the Western front, of the crucifixion of an American Boldier by the Huns helps to confirm the report of a similar ghastly instance of German cruelty which occurred in the early months of the war. The victim in this former case was a sergeant of Canadians, who, after the second battle of Tpres in 1915, was found crucified against the door of a farm building, Subsequently some doubt was cast on the story by apologists for the Germans, who were very busy for a time questioning the accuracy of accounts of German savagery. But there is at least one Canadian at the front who has no doubt of the truth of the report. He is a brother of the murdered man, and he obtained the particulars from a brother Canadian who actually took from the body the bayonets with which it was fastened to the door. This brother, who is a sergeant in the Newfoundland Regiment, lives apparently only to avenge the murder. " Whenever he sees Germans," said one of his officers lately, "he sees red. The vision of his crucified brother is always in his mind." He has shown extraordinary daring in the passionate offensives which he carries out against the Germans at every opportunity. On one occasion, seeing a German machine-gun coming into action, he thiew a bomb which killed throe of the crew, fell on the remainder and bayoneted six of them, and finally killed a giant German before he himself dropped helpless fnttaJpSß.pl blood, having, received * fflfttedn wounds. His deeds have won for him the D.C.M. and the Croix de Guerre, but he does not seek decorations. He lives to avenge his brother' 3 blood.