HORRORS OF GERMAN PRISON CAMPS
TYPHUS AMONGST THE RUSSIANS Petrograd, March 13. Tho Commission which has been inquiring into tho enemy's violation of international law Las published Dr. Krilov's evidence. He states that an epidemic of typhus, occurred in a prison camp at Kotyb'.ie ; Prussia, in December, 1914. The patients wero lying on planks, and ihs barracks were so cold' that many had their extremities frozon, necessitating amputations. The patients were always hungry. Some searchod tbo drains for food, and this caused dysentery. The absence of baths and washhouses resulted in uncleanliness among the patients, who were therefore jeered at by tbo Germans. When the epidemic broke out the Germans left the Russian doctors to attend to tho sick, without providing sufficient medicine, and forbade them to purchase what was needed. Similar conditions prevailed at Prasnyoh in August, 1915, where the majority of the wounded' were sometimes untended for as long as seventeen days. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3028, 15 March 1917, Page 5
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