EVIDENCE AGAINST HUN WAR CRIMINALS
CRUELTIES IN PRISON
CAMPS
N. 7. C«M« A at tor. Rec April 27, 9.5 a.m Lain lion, April 26 The hearing 1 the evidence of British war prisoners who are unable to attend at Leipzig, has begun at [bw Street. German lawyers attended cross-examine the witnesses.
Ihe first charge is against Muder, commandant at the Flavelemanel prison camp, for cruelties practised from April to June. 1918, At this camp there were five laic di ed cases of dysmi tery per month, averaging six deaths daily. The evidences showed there was no doctor in the camp, Ihe accused habitually rode through the camp, scattering the prisoners whom he photographed in their agonies. Dr. Stewart Neighen, ex-chap lain and war prisoner, elated nine hundred sick British prisoners arrived at the Stendahl camp, during June, 1918. They were verminous, with undressed open sores A number died. Another witness stated that between fifty and sixty of the sc died from lack of food and ill treatment,
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7679, 27 April 1921, Page 3
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167EVIDENCE AGAINST HUN WAR CRIMINALS Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7679, 27 April 1921, Page 3
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