CRUEL AND VICIOUS.
SYDNEYITE ON THE HUNS: . 7 ' -T v ■ ■—■■- AFTER A YEAR AT RUHLEBSN. ■■■■ ■■■ ■ • -' - '.-■•.• ■ "N (Received 9.40 am;) ■•''•!" '•• -/ ----- ■ --"■ •"■•--."■■ -"- .Mr.. J. .JEuperti Thompson," who "has..' returned after a ; year spent' in'the Ruhlebcn concentration. camp, near Berlin, describes the Germans as cruel, vicious >> and unreliable.. He'JsaysVthe : prisoners were brutally treated,, aricL.for many months th'cy were: not -supplied.. with/ hot: water. At--the. .Wurtemburger ;camp; there were"- 600 typhus cases, and the only ; medical 'attention they received was from '.a few "members'" of the ".British Red Cross;'"At Ruhleben'an Australasian.!; Society, was: formed;: with \Mr: C. King, of New Zealand, as president. l
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 68, 20 March 1916, Page 5
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