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title: 'The Ballarat Courier, page 3, 13 December 1916: ''Huns'' Slave Raids'' and ''Huns Impose Heavy Levies'''
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ballarat-courier-huns-slave-raids-1916/
description: A regional Victorian daily's page of cabled war news in which Reuters and Times items are headed 'Huns' Slave Raids', 'Huns Impose Heavy Levies' and…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Headlines use 'Huns' as a label for Germans over wartime reports of civilian deportation and killings. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# The Ballarat Courier, page 3, 13 December 1916: 'Huns' Slave Raids' and 'Huns Impose Heavy Levies'

A regional Victorian daily's page of cabled war news in which Reuters and Times items are headed 'Huns' Slave Raids', 'Huns Impose Heavy Levies' and 'Huns Blame Britain'. Tells: the loaded label 'Huns' stands in for the German army and government in the newspaper's own headlines, over reports of the deportation of civilians at Tourcoing and levies on Bucharest.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
THE BALLARAT COURIER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1916.   3

HUNS IMPOSE HEAVY LEVIES
[column body; not transcribed]

BACK FROM GERMANY
WOUNDED ANZACS ARRIVE.

HUNS' SLAVE RAIDS
SERIOUS RIOT AT TOURCOING.
CAVALRY CHARGE CIVILIANS.
(Reuter.)
Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam states that it is reported that a serious riot occurred at Tourcoing on the occasion of the deportation of civilians. German soldiers struck the civilians with rifle butts, whereupon the crowd attacked the escorting troops. Cavalry charged the crowd, and 16 townspeople were killed.

GERMAN REPLY TO U.S.A. NOTE.
HUNS BLAME BRITAIN.
(Reuter.)
Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam states that the German reply to the American Note regarding deportations of Belgians makes the usual effort to lay the blame on the British blockade, which is bringing factories to a standstill, etc.

[remaining columns: war cables, Christmas advertisements; not transcribed]
```

Headlines and the two Reuter items read from the committed image; other columns are not transcribed. The left column is partly cropped by the scan edge.

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