PRISONERS OF WAR.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16219, 23 May 1918, Page 7

PRISONERS OF WAR.

SHOCKING TREATMENT IN GERMAN?.

(By Cable.—Press /•Association.—Copyright.)

(Router's Telegrams.) (Received May 22nd, 7.20 p.m.) LOND ON, May 21. "The Times'' gives prominence to further authenticated atrocities, systematic tortures, and cold-blooded murders of British prisoners in Germany. The sum total of tho ovidonco is incredibly inhuman.

The article instances a number of seriously wounded men who were brutally forced to work for long hours. One who held up his hand to prove his unfitness to pvork, was shot dead, and his body thrown into a dirty washhouso at Schneidemuhl. The British, who were without huts, scooped and lived in holes in the ground. One who did not obey an order which ho failed to -understand, was stripped to tho waist, tied to, a barrel, and savagely beaten. An officer struck him with his sword, Bpat on him and called him "English swine." Tho man died as a result of this treatment.

At Laugenhalza 300 wounded were herded in a large hut without bedding. Five died during the night. Tho remainder wore left in tho broiling sun for three hours, and seven mom died. Subsequently, through calculated neglect and ill-treatment, 50 more succumbed.

Tho details of the conditions in this camp are too revolting for publication.