GERMAN ATROGITIES
BELGIAN OFFCIAL REPORT. REVOLTING STORIES OF PILLAGE AND MURDER. THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT VICTIMS. Press Association. —Cooyright. (Eec. 5.4.5 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 20. The Press Bureau gives the Belgium oflicial report of German outrages. There were GSO victims at Tamines alone. Gorman machine-guns mowed down groups of peasants in front of churches. They silenced the groans of the wounded with bayonet thrusts and burnt and sacked 240 houses. Many women and children were burnt or suffocated. Of 1,4.00 houses at Dinant only 200 remain. Manufactories were systematically destroyed. Over 700 inhabitants of Dinant were killed. Outrages, pillage and incendiarism are also reported from Belgian Luxemburg, where 1000 men were shot.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 70, 21 November 1914, Page 5
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111GERMAN ATROGITIES Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 70, 21 November 1914, Page 5
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