Second Edition. In the West.
WILDING'S DEATH CONFIRMED. Unitkd Peots Association. • (Received 12.25 p.m.) London, March 13. Official: Anthony Wilding was killed. THE GERMAN LOSSES. PRISONERS BEC FOR MERCY. (Received 12.15 p.m.) London, May 12. Renter's Paris correspondent says that a wounded officer, referring to the taking prisoners of three thousand 1 Germans, remarked: "We killed thrice that ntjmber." Another declared that many Germans surrendering now fall on their Knees and beg for mercy and pardon, and that officers act similarly. 'BRYCE'S BLUE BOOK. "MURDER, LUST AND PILLAGE" (Received 1.20 p.m.) ; London, May 12. "Mr Bryce's Blue Book states it was proved there was deliberate, systematic, and organised massacres of the civil population in many parts of Belgium. /Women and children were used as a shield for the advancing Germans. ■ Murder, lust, and pillage prevailed on a scale unparalleled hi any war between civilised nations for three centuries.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 11, 13 May 1915, Page 6
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148Second Edition. In the West. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 11, 13 May 1915, Page 6
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