Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-06
HUN. kULTUR ATTEsTED.
IN MURDERED ITALIANS
British. Red Cross Nurse Serving
With Latin Armies Tells; Blood
Curdling Stories OF Invasion.
ANOTHER MARTYRED NURSE
Sister Tereste Marie Slaughtered by
Boches After Suffering Many In
dignities-Reign Of Terror lnaug-
uratcd to Subdue People. &
Bl MISS ETHEL BRoADHURST.
Special ComInisaioner. Representing the
GfaaEow News aud Red Cross
Nurse Mt the ItsIiaA Frsnt.s ...
Observation-Disclosures Bureau:l !

Nurse Mt the Italian Frsnt.> !.
! Observation-Disclosures Bureau:I u
| VENICE. December .10.--A few days
ago Venice was crowded to OVERLOOKING
with refugees from the Surrounding
districts, who had fled terror-stricllen
before the Hun .hordes. Now they are
fast quitting Venice and seeking
safety in the towns and villages be-
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These refugees ihavesterribIe stories
| to tell of devastation and pillare car
| ried out In the invaded territory under
orders of, the German, high comma nd
| Immediately a village was entered. the
houses were searched. and all food
sturfs, metals, andeindced any materials
| likely to be of>lse to the Germans we re
seized and carried Off.
Where the invaders suspected the
supplies. called for were being with
held by any member Of the community
the villagers were warned that IL the
| suspected hoard was not disclosed BIZ
| specied hour, the enemy would burn
a number of farms or other buildings
and in every case this threat was made
good TO the lettor.
j
saw before we crossed the Piave ahead
OF the Huns was a smoking cotta-,
with mother and three young chill
dren huddIcd together outside il. Thev
had been turned out because the moth ar
had refused to part with her children.s
food to feed the greedy Hun soldiers.
once they were outside, their little
home had been fired as an example to
az ha OF Iyrv
passed that way all that was LETT was
smoking ruin
ANXIETY FOR INFORMATION.
ABOUT BRITISH AND FRENCH
The enemy, are desperately anxious
to get news OF tho Whereabouts OF
British and French troops. They fire.
quently make raids into the villa res
close to the fighting zone. and try 10
terrorize the few remaining inhabitants
into disclosing information regarding
the British and French troops known
TO be CHARTERED in the district
mo HUNS are not content to clea
the countryside Of foodstufrs. but thev
turn this confiscation TO account nv
Spreading abroad in the towns the
story that tho resultant shortage OF
1000 In tho towns is due to British
greed in grabbing all the available
ioodstQrs and raw materials for trans
port to tho United Kingdom.
italy has now her Sister Edith Cayeu
martyred nure. who has given her
life for humanity.
Tier name was Sister Teresa Marie
ana she vas just twenty years OF arg
Young as she was. she had stu,,icd
medicine at home as well as Ii, London
and Edinburgh. tsfsf 1 =
At tho beginning Of tho war sb +.
abandoned her studies to take up nurs
Ing and after working under the Red
Cross in Serbia, she took up duties In
hcr own country when Italv enterea
the war. 4 /
Apparently she was placed on tho
enemy.s black list, beca,isc she Cher
country then being neutra) had dared
TO; oner her professional skill TO tho
serbs. When sho camo under tho no
tics OF the Austrian authorities she
was arrested. and her arrest was re-
ported to Berlin.
HUN TERRORISM
,MANIFEsTEDiA AGAINST NURSE
She was kept In a filthy internrnent
camp for eight days, and at, an inquiry
before r., military officer was taxed
With being ! a spy OF the allies. She
protested 4hery.innocenee.9 and ;onl the
case being I zen !, up : byb the III aiian
Eoysrnfa en-. she \ aa reie.sed; on. the
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