MUTILIATED VICTIM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 229, 6 March 1915, Page 3

MUTILIATED VICTIM.

SVDXKV WOMAN'S TKSTIMOXY. VISIT TO A HOSPITAL "Though people in Sydney seem loth to credit the statement* that have been published about tin* atrocities committed by (Jcrnmn soldiers, L can Yom-h for the truth of some awful in.-f ance.for I have seen mutilated victims/' .Airs. Ilanlon, formerly of Kast Sidney, who lias, with her husband, just returned from a visit to Knyland and ! France. "1. have heard, on the best authority, of some fruitful doings, but, aside i\]\ hearsay evidenee. just let me tell you of some of the things I have seen myself," Mrs. ITanlon went on. "On December 10 we erossed from London to Ciilais, in company with a French lady, and two or threee days later I went through the general pital there. I saw three little boysT can't say whether they were ]!(■!- jLiiuu or French—in tlie hospital. One had a thumb and tw<> finders eut and tile two others' had their ricrhl hands out o!V. The nurses told nw« lhat the Oermans had done this. Then I saw a poor man who had both hand-; taken oft' by one of thr-e barbarian*.. lit Ih'- vvomi'-ms* ward 1 saw amdh-y dreadful One whu had fallen into Ihe hnnds of the man-i, had one o/* h<*r brca-!s <•"(. a:) another had both of her brea-t- t-r|. Von find it hard to believe. bill I saw thn-c unfo r tnn;ite beings, ev.d ] consider it my duty to tell the j enple here about i , becau-o r (ind T:anv people sV!/...:ithi<inir with the 0.-n.uuw, and dedarimr that the stories that have been publi-die.l abuat 11 •e i / rivijv in tli!-; terrible war cannot be trim. From what Y have seen. \ can <-,'e:!it other lii;»>r:s that 1 have h<;vd. are! thev arc of* ,-uch a liiiture as to be unprintable in a public newspaper. Xumi--1 >cv., ( ,f the Oermans whe have be:\i k ; lh:d nr captured were wcarim; women'-* riii'js on their ftm/crs. Offside the ho-;pit 1 T ; :inv I'.'e'l "lid r': ih 1 l 'en who had been nn'imed by oar erne 1 \ fnr-;. The ne'\de here do valt ; e tie inbaman acts thai have b'-..;; !-»*-.•- 1 net rated in 'liebduin and Fraiav. The ! to the Calais ll'^p ;, al was a I vil a v..ik»■::ii';r f-..r ray-