"UNBRIDLED SAVAGES."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 25 August 1914, Page 8

"UNBRIDLED SAVAGES."

GERMAN BRUTALITY 'OFFICIALLY 1 CONDRMNBD. "AN INVASION' OF BARBARIAN'S.' 1 I'EEN'CII IUSPRISALS THREATENED. Paris, August 23. An official communique issu< i says that though the Allies have treat-'d the German prisoners with the ntmo-l consideration, it has been proved t':it the Germans have, violated international conventions and military honor. It, continues: ''We are su'.Vei'ing from an in- j vasion of barbarians, and, though ve > [wish to remain civilised despit- t'le savagery of the nation which pretends j to bo the arbiter of civilisation, it is j impossible longer to preservo the chiv- | airy customary between soldiers. We 'owe these unbridled savages only the iules of humanity and the laws of wa THE OTHER ,SIDI-I. BELGIANS ACCUSED OF ATROCITIES. DEFENCELESS GERMANS AT MERCY OF A MOB. HENCE TIIE AYAI! IMPOST. ■Received 24, i i.116 p m. j London, August 24 'morning). The Cologne Gazette in justifying «Su> fines levied on Brussels and l.icge, 'is the fate of war, says that tribute was exacted as punishment for the bad 'treatment of Germans in Belgium. A fortnight a.go, says the paper, innocent Germans who were quietly doing their work were handed over to the tender of a mob. The citizens will now 1 feel personally and (bodily that hurlin; defenceless women is a cifferrnt thing having ithe enemy quartered in their own homes.