General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 49, 14 October 1914, Page 3

General News

SNIPING ALLIES’ OFFICERS. - - London, October 12-,.-According to prisoners, at medium ranges the French and British officers are easily distinguishable. The Germans select infantry marksmen, provided with field glasses, to pick off the officers. One sniper killed two of our officers and wounded, two more before he himselt was killed. I GERMAN INHUMANITY. / London, October 12. A communication quotes an entry in a notebook taken from a captured German :—“Two prisoners who had worked hard in digging trenches were ordered to rejoin their village. With them I was very glad, inasmuch as I had been ordered to shoot them if the enemy advanced. Thank God, this was unnecessary.” “WILLIAM, THE BLOODSTAINED. London, October 13. Lord Curzon, speaking at Harrow, said Germany’s action with regard to Belgium was the greatest crime in history. It was impossible to imagine any adequate punishment. The execration of all ages would attach to the German Emperor,, whose name would descend to history as “William the Blood-stained.” The whole German people was drunk with the poison poured into them by Bernhardi, Buejow, and others. It was shocking to hear some people stating that the war would shortly be over. More than one Christmas would pass befox-e our soldiers were able to return.