BRITISH SOLDIERS BEATEN AND STARVED
(Received August 15, 10.50 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, 14th August. . On the Vesle front two hunger-stricken British escaped prisoners arrived 1 in the American lines after passing through the German barrage. They were captured in the Marnt fighting. They spent seven days and nights after escaping from a, German prison camp. They declared that the British prisoners -were beaten and starved, and that the German soldiers were living on horse, meat.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 40, 15 August 1918, Page 7
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