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AWFUL STORY OF BOCHE CRUELTY

WHAT A FRENCH DOCTOR WITNESSED. Paris, March 7. Dr. Cresson, a Frenchman, who was ■a prisoner in Germany for twenty-one months, and was employed at Septimester organising a hospital for sick prisoners, tells an awful Btory of Boche cruelty. Invalid captives who are sent from the front are paoked in cattle trucks naked, except/For ft blanket. As the camp was without shelter they dug holes in the groiir.d wiili their plates to keep out tho cold. Subsequently huts were constructed, but : the food was so bad and scarce that the men became in a shocking state owing to hunger and disease. Some of the German doctors frequently used Russian prisoners Tor the purpose of experimental amputations. Dr. Cresson protested, whereupon lie was confined to a, room so small that In had to remain seated, while tlie barred window was only opened once T» three days. Another refinement in cnnliy was forcing healthy men to iu rooms full of typhus cases—Neuter.

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3023, 9 March 1917, Page 5

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AWFUL STORY OF BOCHE CRUELTY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3023, 9 March 1917, Page 5

AWFUL STORY OF BOCHE CRUELTY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3023, 9 March 1917, Page 5

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