In the West
GERMAN INVASION.
CATHOLICS SUFFER SEVERELY.
A report published by the Imperial i J ress Bureau at the, request of the Belgian Legation in London, which has just been received by the Gommonvealth Department of External Afftirs, {hows that the Catholic clergy suffered severely from the German invasion of Belgium. Churches and rejgions houses were destroyed or profaned in almost every village and in nany towns. In most cases the edi.ices were utilised as stables or pri-
"Members of. the clergy," the report adds, "have been exposed to special maltreatment by the German soldiers. [n the dioceses of Liege, Namur, Malines, and Ghent many priests and other religious persons have been shot or hung, and many have been carried off into Germany, where some of them ippear to have been subjected to tbominable usage. The Commission of Inquiry has collected evidence showing ;hat in the diocese of Marines alone 2(j priests were killed without any •tause. The same atrocities occurred in other dioceses. Jn that of Liege 10 priests were shot. The cure of Spon„in was hanged, first by the feet and ehen by the hands. He was pierced by several bayonet thrusts, and finally shot."
MISCELLANEOUS. Paris, February 24. Official: Our batteries blew up a German ammunition depot north-west of Verdun. The heavy losses of the ,'iiemy at Hois Bnchot on the 21st are •onfirmed', their attacks being completely repulsed. Daring the recent night attack in Lorraine the French shot and ignited the incendiary material in the hands of a German soldier, and it burst into flames. The light disclosed on 'the ground a' number of German snipers, the majority of whom were shot.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 46, 25 February 1915, Page 5
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