FREIGHTFUL ATROCITES
BY SENGALESE SOLDIERS
The London Globe
prints a gruesome story of the manner in which the French Senegalese soldiers
have followed up victories over German troops. The account is contained in a
letter from a reader of the Globe who claim to have witnessed the incidents.
“It is a wonder”,
reads a letter to the Globe, “that the French and British troops have not
retaliated on the Germans for the terrible atrocities committed by the latter.
The Tucos and Senegalese, however are not so scrupulous.
“One Senegalese
warrior is walking about Havre with a neck lass of German ears strong across his
shoulders. Another carries at his waist the gory head of a Uhlan with a dented
picklehaube set with a rakish tilt over one eye.
“ A wounded Turco was
put into the carriage of a Red Cross train with four wounded Germans. At the
first stop, a doctor came to the window and asked if they were all right. The
Turco replied that the Germans were resting peacefully.
“It was not until the train reached the
destination that it was discovered how peaceful their rest was. The Turco had
strangled all four of them.”
One can quite
understand the French desire to gets at the Germans. The letter stated. “ I
hear first hand stories, not third hand , “yarns” that make the blood run cold. All boys whom
they catch have their right arms cut off
sometimes at the wrist, sometimes at the elbow. Both boys and girls are
mutilated in revolting fashion. Quite close in Arras a three weeks old child was torn from
its mothers breast and hacked into bits before her eyes.”
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