HEARTLESS GERMAN CRUELTY
TO INVALID PRISONERS. TAKEN TO SWISS BORIUBR. THEN SENT BACK. (Australian and N.Z. Cable AeeclaUen.) .(Received 1.30 a.m.) BERNE, Janjoary 23. Humane protests are being mad*' against the refined cruelty of the Gf*. man procedure with French and British sick and wounded prisoners selected for internment in Switzerland. When the selected men reach Lake -Constance, in sight of the frontier and comparative freedom, they are re-examined and are frequently sent back to captivity. Three- ! quarters of the last French batch suffered this. fate. Such heartless cruelty has evoked protests even from Princes Max of Baden and Henry of Saxony.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 21, 24 January 1917, Page 5
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