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—9 , BRITISH PRISONERS KEPT SEVEN DAYS IN WATER Another ghastly story of German fiendi.shness to prisoners is told by Private W. Haycox, who has just .reached his home at Chesterfield after being captured 'near.Lille on October 20, 1911. His party, suffered the usual brutal treatment —refusal of water, missiles, starvation diet, etc. He was sent, with others, to work in a salt mine. Tho conditions were so bad that they refused to work. . Each was in' turn' bayoneted nnd thrashed till they were knocked out. Haycox was stabbed in both legs. On recovering they were placed in a hut up to the waist in water, and were kept there for seven' days. Every morning they were flogged, nnd on the seventh day they were taken back to the mine and flogged again. > On another occasion, when a sergeant in the Grenadier Guards refused the coffee provided, a German soldier placed his rifle in the sergeant's mouth. and blew his head practically off.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 88, 8 January 1919, Page 6
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