GERMAN “JACK THE RIPPERS.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3991, 26 July 1915, Page 3

GERMAN “JACK THE RIPPERS.”

ATROCITIES IN BELGIUM. The British report on the German atrocities, with a mass of carefully attested evidence which it contains m the voluminous appendix, is remarkable for the light it sheds upon charges against the Germans (states an English paper). The burning of British wounded wholesale, diabolical as it sounds, >s confirmed in the pages of evidence Case after case is recorded in* which wounded men were burnt in Belgium by the Germans. The crucifixion of Canadian soldiers, though the British Government may profess .o know nothing about it, is anticipated in this sentence of horror: “At Haecht on» child of two or tlireo years old was found nailed to tlic door of a farmhouse by its hands and feet.” 1 I was wounded at Mons (states a. British soldier) . . . The Germans wero turning the wounded over with their feet and pinning them to the floor with their bayonets. I saw a dozen treated in this way. I saw one of our R.A.M.C. men attending to a wounded person. I saw two German... strike at him with either sword or bayonet. His hands wero outstretched jn front of liim, and as they struck him I satv him throw his arms up. I saw tho flash of steel coming down—the sun caught it. I thought when J saw them strike at liim they were cutting his hands off. At Alalines a small child, aged two, came out of a house as some German soldiers came along the street. One of the second line stepped aside and drove his bayonet with both hands into the child’s stomach, lifting the child -into the air on his bayonet and carrying it away on his bayonet, he and his comrades still singing. One proof that the outrages were calculated and prepared before the war is to he found in the appearance at the very outset of a corps of specially .uniformed incendiaries. These men at Louvain: Had broad belts with the words “Gott mitt uns” (God with us), and their equipment consisted of a hatchet, a syringe, a small shovel and a revolver.