Horrible Punishments Inflicted by Huns.
Australian aud N Z Cable Assoc. Rec Jail 18, 8 50 n. in London, Jan 17
Prisoners who have escaped from German camps and reached Englaud narrate that horrible punishments are iuflicted en Englishmen for refusing to work in mines An offender is stripped naked and throwu into a cell heated with hot air, the walls and roof of which arc double-boarded. The heat is suffocating, the only ventilation being a hole the size of a crown piece. The man sweats and gasps fora time; then, he is taken naked and made to stand ouiside iv any weather. The extremes of cliuipto are real torturing. If the spirit of the man ia still unbroken ho is knocked unconscious by a blow on the head with the butt end of a ride - } then he is taken to the mine aud not allowed to come to the surface until he agrees to work.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6964, 18 January 1918, Page 3
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