GERMAN ATROCITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 150, 20 November 1914, Page 4

GERMAN ATROCITIES.

MORE DREADFUL INDICTMENTS. Christchurch, Yesterday. Some doubt has naturally been felt as to whether the stories told in the newspapers of atrocities committed by the Hermans can possibly be true. Unfortunately, letters have been received even in Christchurch and district containing first-hand evidence on this sub-. ject wheih it is impossible to doubfo The Press has been permitted to make the following extracts from a letter received by a lady living in one of the suburbs of Christchurch from her dauhter, a trained hospital nurse who assisted to tend the wounded who were arriving in Folkestone when the mail left on October 12th:—

Ostend is only thirty miles from here, but then we have our navy to protect us. However, several FolkeJ stone residents have quitted. They are getting nervous. The place is packed with refugees and wounded. lam giving my services at our military hospital about six hours a day, and I have to keep myself, but it is the least we train* ed nurseß can do to help our poor bravo wounded soldiers. Some of the shrapnel wounds are very dreadful. The Germans and their atrocities are too awfuL Young girls of good family are stripped, and made to wait nude upon the Germans; then they rape them and cut off their breasts. Also, the men are mutilated, and all the young boys, so that the Belgian race shall be exterminated. I shall take prussie acid before the Germans ever lay hold on me. Little girls with hands cut off. We have two of them in Folkestone, and my landlady has a mother and father in this house—a Belgian count and countess, whose two daughters are in the Germans' hands. The eldest, twenty-two years of age, was tortured before their eyes. They think she is dead, and the youngest (a girl o£ seventeen) was taken, with fifty other well-born girls, into the German officers'! tents. These poor people are nearly de-*