ATROCITIES OF KULTUR
FEARFUL STORIES FROM SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.
GROSS CRUELTY TO BRITISH PRISONERS. CAPETOWN, 21st April. A sensation has been created by the Natal Witness publishing the report of the Commission of Investigation.into the atrocities on British prisoners in German South-West Africa.. Some of tiie revelations are shocking. Even German witnesses admitted that the prisoners were persistently starved. Instances are quoted of prisoners fainting from hunger while standing in queues awaiting an opportunity to drink the blood of slaughtered oxen. The men were forced to go half-naked among the Kaffir women. Specific instances of gross outrages on British officers are given. Dr. Seitz ordered them to be placed in irons during transit from place to place. Captain Geary, taken prisoner at Sandfontein, was kept in solitary confinement for Gj months in a cell 13ft by 7ft, infested with insects, and under shocking sanitary conditions. British civilians with women and children were confined in the common gaols, sleeping ten in each cell, with locked doors, in. a foul atmosphere, and with scanty food. The sick and wounded were grossly neglected in the field until the German wounded were attended to. The Commission found that the authors of the outrages were all at liberty in South-West Africa.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 96, 24 April 1916, Page 7
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205ATROCITIES OF KULTUR Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 96, 24 April 1916, Page 7
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