German Ferocity.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 16, 5 September 1914, Page 5

German Ferocity.

STORY OF GERMAN FEROCITY.

London, September 4

Ford Madox Hueffer, the British author, writing from Boulogne, says Ihe interviewed the cure of a little village south-west of Brussels. The cure sates that an officer rode over [a little child in the street, killing her, and rode on cursing. One of the [crowd flung a stone. The Germans immediately fired, killing several of the villagers. The cure and 12 notables were then seized. Later, a villager fired a single shot. Five hostages were then shot. In addition | many villagers were killed by indiscriminate volleys, and the village was burned. WOUNDED MEN SHOT IN THE BATTLEFIELD. London, September 4. Stories of German brutalities are accumulating from all quarters. From Nn-vre the British Army Medical Corps declare that when a German soldier is seriously wounded, his comrades simply shoot him dead in order to save trouble. Moreover, they deliberately fire on the British Medical Corps, and shell hospitals.

MASSACRE AT AERSCHOT.

Dieppe, September 4

The agent of the Belgian State Railways describes the Germans’ coldblooded massacre at Aerschot. A boy brooding over his country’s wrongs, shot dead the German colonel who commanded the town. All the men in the town, numbering 390, were thereupon drive)! into a church, whence they were taken out in groups of three. Of every three, ono was taken at random, led away, and shot. The surviving 260 were forced, under threats of a general massacre, to dig huge graves to bury their kinsmen and townsfolk. \

Ostend, September 4

A telegram states that the citizens of Namur accused of assisting in the defence of the town against the Germans, were summarily shot. They shot eight men in each of the numerous streets.