Second Edition Africa

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 4, 3 August 1916, Page 6

Second Edition Africa

HUN GRIMES. SHOCKING INSTANCES RECORDED IN BLUE BOOK. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received 1.20 p.m.) London, August 2. A .Blue Book, detailing German s ■ atrocities in Africa based on reports rfrom the Canieroons and East and South-west Africa, includes some shocking photographs of Natives with their hands practically severed and their bod\\ covered with great gashes. It contain? hundreds of [affidavits of eye-witnes*ses covering thousands of atrocities and murders, including men beaten to death, women in a pitiable condition with, deep machete wounds on the. shoulders, hands and legs, scores of cases of deliberate mutilations, women being killed with axes and-bayonets. It is evident the German, European, and Native troops alike engaged in a policy, of murder and rapine. .The Blue Book covers the German Army Order of October, 1914, accusing the Dualas of attacking the Germans, ordering the destruction of all villages. The Order continues :~ "Prisonfers must only be taken when caught red-handed. They can legally be, tried and condemned to death." Another order- instructed the troops to kill every Native at sight. The German authorities explained in writing that the British may conquer the country, but they will find no inhabitants. All the cases of atrocities were against non-combatants', many being innocent women and children.