THE CRIMINAL HUN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 71, 20 October 1916, Page 4

THE CRIMINAL HUN.

Touching upon tlu> more recent outrages of the Him r.inucii, the Christchurch Press learns from “Tim Hospital” that recently the HnHHc TToaltli (kmimittee of Bristol Imld an enquiry into some mysterious cases ol illness in the city, which turned out to he mild cases of bubonic plague. Infected rates were discovered, and H Davies, who reported on the outbreak, was asked whether he was propouml- „ . JD Ci..

ing the theory that a certain rat which had been caught had been deliberately infected. He replied: “I should not be surprised. It is quite possible. 1 may have a further statement to make to the committee on that point when 1 have made further investigations.” The Press goes on to say: The obvious suggestion of these remarks is that German agents have been trying to start an epidemic of plague in England by introducing infected rats into a British seaport. Such proceedings as those described are, of course, not only contrary to all International Law, but are characterised by a, depth of malignant cruelty to which the lowest savage races would not, descend. One’s first impulse is to do-| dare that it is impossible the reports; can be true. Unfortunately, howover, they are entirely in keeping, with the Huns’ character throughout! the war. The introduction of torturing gases into warfare, the poisoning of wells in Africa, the butchery of children, and the vilest outrages on young girls in France and Belgium, the massacres in Armenia carried out with German connivance, if not at German instigation—are all of a piece with what is now reported. How is it possible that any Briton worthy of the name can think of making peace with such horrible perverts and mad beasts until their power of again shocking humanity by such outrages shall have been taken away from them ?