AMERICAN PRISONERS' STORIES
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TORTURE
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(AUSTRALIAN • NEW ZEALAND CAILI AISOCIATION.) . LONDON, lath August.
■The Daily Telegraph's Reval correspondent states that liberated Americans tell extraordinary stories of physical and mental torture, which are supported by visible evidence 6f feverish eyes, hollow cheeks, and trembling hands. Captain Fitzpatrick, of the Red Cross organisation, says he was reported to be crazy because he fought Polish /prisoners who prevented air coming into the cells. A most terrible and horrible experience was his confinement in a 'basement cell next to the execution room. Captain Fitzpatrick was once under sentence of death ■and confined in that room, which was constantly flooded to wash away the blood. Captain Fitzpatrick added : "Our though&s are for the thousands of prisoners of other nationalities who are slowly dying in-unspeakable mißefy and torture. The civilised world ought to co-operate to effect their release."
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 38, 13 August 1921, Page 5
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