A HAUNTED GERMAN

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 112, 14 January 1915, Page 3

A HAUNTED GERMAN

I Viscount Middleton, speaking at Peterborough, said, it was his duty when War Minister to know something about foreign armies. The German soldiers were treated like slaves by their officers, whose atrocities were a standing record.of iniquity and infamy, which would go down to the third and fourth generation?. A lady; who had been nursing in a' hospital in Belgium 1 and returned to England recently; had some German wounded put under her care.. One man repeatedly asked: "Do you think I shall die to-night?" At last she asked: "Why are you afraid to die?" And he replied: "If you bad done the things I had done in the last month you would be afraid to die. I killed, in cold blood, a woman with a child in her arms, and then I killed the child." She asked: "Why did you do it?" and he answered: "My officer stood over me and threatened to shoot me if I did not. I'shall never forget the look on the child's face, and. I wish I had given up my life before I did it!"-Lieut.-Colonel Sir Robert Ash said he could tell tales of infamies perpetrated in Belgium that newspapers dare not print, lie had seen in Yorkshire women who had suffered the most horrible barbaities that fiends could inflict.