WESTERN ATTACK.
SHOCKING BRUTALITY,
HUN VICTIMS IX JiELCiIUM. London, Jan. 13. It is learned from official Belgian sources that f>S execution? have occurred In Belgium recently, making a total of 170 for tile year for patriotic crimes. The victims include ten women, three of them girls between 1.4 and 10 years, and several boys under 20. All were supposed to be guilty of spying. The Germans forced two girls to witness the death of their mother and father, and then shot the girls when they refused to give information. Another girl of 16, who was carrying letters to the frontier, pleaded for her life at the last moment, and was shot while kneeling.
ENEMY RAID REPULSED. Received Jan. 14, 8.50 p.m. London, Jan. 13. Sir Douglas Haig reports: We repulsed an attempted raid east of JMonchy. Aeroplanes on Saturday bombed enemy billets and hutments and fired several thousand rounds mto the trenches. Two of our machines are missing.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1918, Page 5
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158WESTERN ATTACK. Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1918, Page 5
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