Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-09-25
BoTH SIDES CRUEL.
Women And Children Mutilated-
Eyes of Wounded Soldiers
Gouged Out. :

| have been guilty OF Darparlty, -nI
Beleian government will chortiy send
to America two beautiful young Bel;
eian girls, now patients IN the Ps'i;
General Hospital recovering from
mutilations inflicted by German SCI
diers.
This announcement was made hg
DR.. Frederick S. Mason, of this city
who arrived on the White Star liner
Olympic. DR. Mason has been stud
ing at the Paris Hospital, and as
sisted in the treatment of the two
Belgian girls and their father, who
was mutilated by the soldiers.
Dr. Mason declared emphaticaiiy
the Germans had been guilty of many
atrocities, especially during the early.
campaign in Belgium and France.
"With my own eyes + have seen;
enough examples to show barbarity
among the invaders was not con-
fined to scattered cases. said Dr..
Mason.
"The two Belgian girls who will be
sent to this country were selected
because they form a concrete eX-
ample of TIE outrageS inflicted by tie
invaders. Bath girls are young an1'
we're attractive and come Of veal
thy family.
"Near IIcec four uhlans entered a
house, and after dr;rling all the LG-
uor they cculd finG. continued On
their way. A few minutes later
party of R.!yians entered the house.
All adults we're missing, but they
found -four children whose heads mad
been cut off lying in {; heap.
Fright after the battle Of Diant |
spent two and . hall lays at AmlenS
and saw sou: 800 wounded who had
been brought there. ! talked to many
Of them, and was told that the Gel
mans were taking no prisoners. Lots
of the French had had their throat>
cut, and many of the wounded French
told me that the Germans had bound
the hands and feet of English sold
iers who were only slightly wounded
and had thrown them into the Meuse.
-
81 should say four-ffths Of the wo-
men refugees from Belgium had beer
attacked by the German invaders.
who generally ended by mutilatin9
their victims.
.'Rrt the Belgians are just as o'!d
themselves. 1t is clearly a case Of ar
eve for an eye and a tooth for
tooth declared the doctor
New York, Sept. 25.--The steam.
er Antilles arrived here yesterday
bringing 2l2 Americans. Miss II
.reda Konnenich and her sister, Miss
Irmgade, were among the passen
gers. They went from Belgium tc
italy in a railway coach with
wounded German soldier
"Thc soldier told US said Mis-.
Elfreda. chat he saw Belgian women
come out upon the battlefield after
/ fight and pry the eyes out OF
wounded Germans. He said they
even cut the ears and noses eff and
pulled the tongues out by the roots"
New York. Sept. 25.-That he has
personal knowledge of atrocities con-
Mitted by German soldiers on Bel s''
ans vas the statement made by Capt.
". J. Roberts, of the steamship New
York, which came in from Liverpool
yesterday. bringing 455 cabin passen-
gers and 223 in the steerage. Capt.
Roberts said:
"At my home in Liverpool my wife
IS caring for six-year-old Belgian
girl. Both hands have been cut off
at he wrist. They were cut eli
by German soldiers when they lnVaG-
ed Bel"ium. That is one case Of
which I have personal knowledge,
and It IS impresses me to believe az;
thing else I hear Of such inhuman
acts
Berlin, Sept. 25.-By wireless to
Sayville, l.. 1.-The Wolff Bureau
the semi-offical news agency, has
published statemnt giving details
Of an alleged outrage comnStted by
French military bicyclists in charge
Of an officer. on the wounded German
soldiers in two Red Cross motor
car sat Pethancourt. Only two men
succeeded in making their escape,
it is alleged, and this. in spite Of
their wounds, while the remainder
! were killed by bicyclists, who then