HUN SAVAGERY.
ELEVEN FUGITIVE BRITISH SOLDIERS KILLED. Authenticated details of a Infamous ca.se of German brutality have been received by the Daily Express, Eleven British soldiers finding themselves behind the enemy lines in France managed to evade capture for several weeks by Elding themselves in the fields, and by subsequently taking shelter in n house. The woman in whose house »hey sheltered states that she and her husband, knowing that the soldiers c 'ff fere in hiding in the fields, took them in and lodged them in an attic. Unfortunate-'-lv, some outsiders knew thejj weife there and a neighbor denounced ,'thein to the' Coinmandantur at Guise."'' The letter sent troops to arrest^tiig.Soldiers, Wh"o, gave themselves i 4 -" out making any "They were •♦ben taken off to Guise Vitirtie fainfl/ 0 which had given thein shelter... Three days later they were* tiled. 'Me 'eleven soldiers and tlie Kusba/id gt...Uia woman who had sllieltered were executed the same day. -THq woman was sentenced to four i forced labor her daughter to two years,, and her aon to three years, wjyle. a,.woman who !tnd given' the soldiersspine food was sentenced to ten years', forced labor, and her daughter to oxs year. i
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1918, Page 7
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199HUN SAVAGERY. Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1918, Page 7
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