GERMAN ATROCITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 277, 20 November 1914, Page 3

GERMAN ATROCITIES.

Per Press Association. Christchurch, November 20. Some doubt has naturally been felt as to whether tiie stories told in the newspapers of atrocities committed by the Germans can possibly be true. Unfortunately, letters have been received even in Christchurch 'and district containing first-Jiand evidence on this subject which it i,s impossible to doubt. The Press has been permitted to make the following extracts from a letter received by a lady living in one of the suburbs of Christchurch from her raughter, a trained hospital nurse who assisted to tend the wounded who were arriving in Folkestone when the mail left on October 12th:— “Ostend is only thirty miles from here, but then we have our navy to protect us. However, several Filkestone residents have quitted. They are getting nervous. The place is packed with refugees and wounded. I am giving my services at our military hospital about six hours a day, and 1 have to keep myself, but it is the least we trained nurses can do to help our poor brave wounded soldiers. Some of the shrapnel wounds are very dreadful. The Germans and their atrocities are too awful. Some girls of good family are stripped, and made to wait nude upon the Germans ; then they rape them and cut off their breasts. Also, the men are mutiliated, and all the young hoys, so that the Belgian race shall be < - terminated. 1 shall take prussic acid before the Germans over lay hold of me. Little girls with hands cut off. M e have two of them in Folkestone, and my landlady has a mother and father in this house— a Belgian count and countess, whose two daughters arc in the Germans’ hands. The eldest, tu enty-two years of age, was tortured before their eyes. They think she is dead, and the youngest (a girl of seventeen) was taken, with fifty other well-born girls, into fie German officers’ . tents. These poor, people arq n.harly demented.