HUN BRUTALITY
VILE TREATMENT OP A NURSE
INSULTS AND BAD FOOD.
LONDON, 27th December. Miss Agnes Short,' an English governess, who became a member of the Belgian Red Cross in August, 1914, has arrived at Liverpool, clad in a nightdress, skirt, clogs, and a soldier's blanket. At a German court-imn-tial in 1916 she was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. The Germans alleged that she assisted Belgian youths to escape to Holland. Miss Short was shockingly treated in prison. She was fed on coffee made of dried chestnuta and mouldy black bread, soaked, aiuf not fit for pigs. Instead of a bath she was washed with a hose-pipe in public each week, in spite of her objections on the score of decency. The combings from bey hair had to be saved, and were used for making war material. When there was an insufficient supply each Monday the matron of the prison tore a handful from, the head of Miss Short and other prisoners. Miss Short saw an English prisoner being inoculated. When the German doctor saw the Union Jack tattooed on the arm h« slashed at it savagely with his lancet.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1918, Page 7
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190HUN BRUTALITY Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1918, Page 7
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