AUSTRIAN PRISON HORROR
TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS OF SERBIANS (Rec June 25, 7.30 p.iji.) London, June 24. Details have reached Salonika concerning tho treatment of Serbian prisoners in Austria-Hungary. Twenty-four thousand have died of typhoid in two concentration camps. A few thousand remain; these aro suffering from tuberculosis and other diseases. A large 'number are interned in a third camp at Cachack, which is the 'depot of the labour battalions on the Italian front. There were twenty thousand deaths there during the last six months. Tho prisoners ar© frightfully emaciatcd, clad in rags, and are seen daily lighting like famished beasts in the refuse heaps for scraps of bones. One hundred and eight Serbians were frozen to death in a single hut on March 18. The dead and the dying are thrown into hugo graves and covered with quicklime—United Service.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3120, 26 June 1917, Page 5
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