A HORRIBLE STORY
EURASIAN'S ATROCIOUS BEHAVIOUR
MALTREATMENT OF KOT PRI
SONERS.
■ (BNIIBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (ACSTRAUAN-NBW ZEALANDCADLK ASSOCIATION.) (Received July 16, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 15th July. A story of revolting cruelty and treachery was revealed at a Court-martial at which Fratel, a Eurasian warrant-offi-cer, was charged with gross inhumanity and neglect of prisoners from Kut-el-Amara in the Bagtsche Hospital. It was alleged that Fratel kicked a dying man, while dead men were flung by Greek orderlies into the mortuary, mostly naked, and were afterwards buried in shallow graves, from which jackals dug them up and gnawed the. bodies. The prosecution suggested that Fratel, believing the British were defeated, sought to ingratiate himself with; the Turks.
[A Eurasian is a person of mixed European and Asiatic blood. The term is commonly applied to half-caste Indians.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 14, 16 July 1919, Page 5
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A HORRIBLE STORY
Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 14, 16 July 1919, Page 5
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