Among the Neutral Nations
STARVING GERMAN EOLDIERF. NO FOOD FOR SIX DAYS. Received 30, 11.50 p.m. Berne, September 2[>, German artillery crossing the Swiss frontier were disarmed. The men stated that they had nothing to eat for six (lays, and crossed the frontier in ignorance. The Swiss believe that the mistake was a sequel to their privations. ATROCITIES UNDOUBTED. A SCEPTIC CONVINCED. Received 30, 11.50 p.m. New York, Sept. 20.
Mr Ilomro Copland, officially employed by tie American Embassy in London to assist stranded Americans, has written to Mr Harold Sewell, ex-Vice-Consul at Liverpool, giving the results of bis conversations with many wounded French soldiers. The letter states: "I had set down the reports of the German atrocities as hysterical exaggerations, but one soldier after anothrr told what he Imd seen, including cruelties to women young girls, with circumstantial details whieli could not have been invented by • man lying at the point of death. A 1 eaid that Germans had maltreated women, and that they had constantly scsn. when the Germans evacuated towna and Tillages, bodies not wounded by bulleto, but with swords or bayonets."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 109, 1 October 1914, Page 5
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185Among the Neutral Nations Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 109, 1 October 1914, Page 5
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