NOT A CLEAN FIGHTER.
BRUTALITY OF THE TURK. (Received 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, February 24. Australian wounded soldiers repatriated from Turkey endorse the stories of cruelty of the Turks .to prisoners. They flatly contradict the statement that the Turk is a clean fighter. The usual punishment for petty crime is to tie the prisoner head downwards, his feet being lashed with rawhide whips. The treatment in Austria, where the Australians stayed some weeks, -was heaven compared with that in Turkey. One returned; man declared that the Germans in Turkey were virtually prisoners.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 48, 25 February 1918, Page 5
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