UNFORGIVABLE ATROCITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 10, 10 August 1916, Page 8

UNFORGIVABLE ATROCITIES.

I Speaking of German atrocities, in allusion of the ideas of slackers, conscientious objectors, and such-hke fellows, an officer in his hook, “From 'JDugout and Billet,” says:— “There are German deeds beyond forgiveness, which ought to be avenged in this world as well as in the next. “I’ve semi some of them ami heard first-hand about others. There is something inconceivable about the brutalities of the Germans. They don’t bear talking about. But I would have liked to show Canon Lyttelton and tile other clergymen who preach about toleration to our enemies a little church we came across a month ago. There were sights there to awe a religious man. The place as wrecked, and wrecked in a way that only fiends could have thought of. If anyone needed convincing that this is a holy war in which the enemy arc the powers of Darkness and no other, they had I but to look on that hellish devastation—ribald words scrawled on a crucifix, holy images defiled, even a statue of the Virgin and Child disfigured. It was such a girlish little Virgin, a face so serene, and happy. The brutes had hacked if about and stuck the stump of one of their foul cigars—taken the trouIho to gum it—between the holy, smiling lips! Can you wonder at their crimes against the mothers and sisters and wives of Belgians am! Frenchmen? What would they not do to the mothers of Fnglishmeii if they could—if they ever see the Day?”'