ATROCITIES IN AFRICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 311, 11 October 1915, Page 4

ATROCITIES IN AFRICA.

CANNIBALISM BY GERMAN

NATIVE TROOPS

A special colonial military corres*pondent now with the French troops?in the Cameroons states that the atrocities committed by the Germans there are of the most frightful character.

The Germans, the correspondent affirms, have revived cannibalism- and' other tortures for their prisoners. . In; a letter he received, dated Fort Gatnot, April IS, a sergeant say st . “The German sharpshooter's tare ac-. tually eating the inhabitants of the region under the eyes of their European officers. When we occupied a month ago the small village of Otmbougo, near Gaza, which I. a I jnly just been evacuated by the Ce."nau\ we found the lower limbs )f a body which had been partly eaten. Nh-ar Baoturi the Germans ca nitre 1 same prisoners, whem they sent to Mbaiki. All the unfortunate beings., were attached together by leather p ■aps passed through holes cut in their flesh at a point just above the hip. These prisoners, who were large in number and formed a lengthy procession, travelled' in indescribable agony for a distance of not less than 250 miles under a blazing sun.”