Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 47, 12 October 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

NOTABLE WORDS. BRITISH STATESMEN MAKE OUR DUTY PLAIN. “ARE WE DOWNHEARTED?—NOT* (Received 9.15 a.m.) London, October 11. Lord Haldane at Newcastle-on-Tyne, said the finer qualities of the German race were being degraded for an unworthy purpose, and were being subjected to the domination of a military spirit, which should be exterminated. Germany might bo admirably prepared, but the preparations wore off against people possessing Britain s resources. They did not understate the magnitude of the task, but the first shock being over the real struggle was beginning under much less favourable conditions for Germany than in August. Earl Gfrey said “We aro not going to stop until we have smashed the German Army and Navy and the spirit of Prussian militarism.” Maerterlinck, the distinguished Belgian poet and writer, received an ovation in London, He remarked: “The latest events in the pitiful story of a little Kingdom which has kept its pledge and has died for it will cry aloud for ever.” Mr W. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, at Kingsway Hall, said there was no reason to be depressed at the fall of Antwerp, which was inevitable. It had been cabled that the Belgian army Mould closely cooperate with the Allies in France and Belgium. The German p.ress was predicting Zeppelin raids on England, but they miscalculated the British character if they thought they would frighten the people. We had courageous men in our flying corps, thirteen of whom had pledged themselves to dash their machines through any Zeppelins coming, even if both were dashed to earth. AGAIN THE AUTOCRATS’ BLEEDING HEART! (Received 9.15 a.m.) New York, October 11. The Tribune publishes a scathing article on Germany concentrating her rage and revenge upon Belgium. The Sun, in a cartoon, shows the Kaiser surveying the ruins of Antwerp, saying, “My heart bleeds for Antwerp!” GERMAN ATROCSTIES. REPORT OP THE COMMISSION. London, October I'k I The Press Bureau issue-; the report of the Belgian Commission, which states that the excesses! at Aerschot were aue to the regular army and the Landsturm equally. Murders, looting, rape, and attacks on persons and property

closed only when the Belgians re-enter-ed Aerschot. A wounded Belgian soldier affirm! that he, with twenty-seven other prisoners were forced to walk in front of the Germans along the road and th* banks of the Demer. The Germans fired, killing many. The parrator feigned death. The Germans discovered him, and were about to shoot him, when an officer said, “He’s not worth a bullet. Throw him into the river.” This was done, and the Belgian escaped after remaining in the water for a day, only-his head emerging. Only one other escaped. There is corroborative evidence of the. inhabitants that the bullet which killed the German general came from the Germans, and not from the Burgomaster’s son. FURTHER CONFIRMATION. Paris, October 10. M. Ch.oetirn, a San Francisco lawyer. who visited villages in the Vosges, has furnished a terrible report of German barbarities inflicted on civilians of all ages and sexes, and abominable atrocities on women. Nearly all the villages were sprinkled with petroleum and burned. • 20 BOMBS IN PARIS. THREE PERSONS KILLED AND FOURTEEN WOUNDED. (Received 11.25 a.m.) • London, October IT. Two German aeroplanes dropped twenty bombs in Paris, killing three and wounding fourteen. One fell on the roof of the church of Notre Dame, but did not burst.