ATROCITIES IN ITALY
PRISONERS 1 AWFUL STORIES
AUSTRIANS' EXTRAORDINARY SAVAGERY.
(PUBLISHED IN THB TIMES.) (Received August 7, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, ah August.
Mr. Ward Price writes : Escaped Italian prisoners say that the Austrians have increased their cruelties in the occupied territory, and treat the people with the utmost savagery. They have erected gallows in the village squares, and hang peasants for the smallest offence. Bobbery is general. The people are allowed one meal of vegetables a day, and are forced to work- twelve hours a day. Soldiers burst into homes ■with fixed bayonets and kidnap girls. One girl leaped through a window and broke her leg, and the soldiers followed and outraged her. An escaped prisoner alleges that Austrian airmen bombed an Italian prisoners' camp, and killed a thousand of them.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 33, 7 August 1918, Page 8
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