STORIES OF TERRIBLE CRUELTY
TOLD BY OFFICER PRISONERS FROM GERMANY. (Rec. April 22, 11.55 p.m.) i Rotterdam, April 21: Incapacitated British officers who have been returned from Germ.my relate stories of terrible cruelty to prisoners. The German doctors left nil the dressing of an ofiiccr'g log for threo weeks. Gangrene resulted, and the leg had to be amputated four times, and finally was r.ut off at the hip. Prisoners who had been sent to tho salt mines returned incurable, witli running sores, and mentally and permanently impaired. Tho majority of the medical opor:itions were performed without anaesthetics, cnusiif}; awful torture. Prisoners say that tho Germans expect the war to end in victory or de- ' feat this year.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo A6sn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 183, 23 April 1918, Page 5
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