LEST WE FORGET

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 45, 18 November 1918, Page 4

LEST WE FORGET

FURTHER REVELATIONS OF HUJf BRUTALITIES: The "Daily Jlnil" correspondent at The Hague eajcl on September 13:—Some British prisoner* for England came from the camp at Krossen (not. far from Leipzig), to which was brought a few days previously about MO British and 10 Americans who had been forced since May to work behind the German lines in * circumstances beyond description. Some we.ro suffering from dropsical conditions following on un tended flesh wounds; nevertheless, they had been forced to carry heavy vails and sloepors or push trucks. When they dropped through sheer exhaustion they were spurred on with bayonet pricks. A man of the Royal Scots was hit over the head with a rifle-butt am! died during the nighl. Five or six died immediately after arrival at Krossen, and an American suffering from dropsy and scarcely ablo to walk was carried off from Krossen to servo jis an interpreter. One, of my informants said: "When the men arrived at Krossen their legs were, cither thin as drumsticks or swollen lo twici! the normal size." Facts regarding the treatment of Russians also require notice. At Snltau, Russians are dying off like (lies. They nro Iroiited with tiio most inhuman 'brutality and nro starving. 'Recently a Russian who was too wealc to work and protested had his head beaton in lifco an eggshell.