SHOCKING CONDITIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 133, 8 June 1942, Page 5

SHOCKING CONDITIONS

German Field Hospitals

(Rec, 12.50 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, June 7. A South African doctor who escaped, after several months in the hands of the Germans, described the conditions in the German field hospitals as shocking. The doctor was put lo work in one hospital where inhuman treatment was meted out to the German wounded. Bullets were extracted under a local anaesthetic. The wounded were given a few blankets and were compelled to sleep on the floors.

they lost more than 20 bombers. Then mass bombing was tried, and in the first three days of June the Russians shot down 27 planes. They destroyed 11 more on the ground when they blitzed an enemy aerodrome. The Red air force also shot up an enemy airfield near Bryansk, where they destroyed 20 enemy machines and damaged 11 without loss to themselves.

Red air force pilots are fiercely attacking mechanised columns moving up to the Sebastopol area. Here, according to the "Red Star," the defenders are stiJl holding their own.

Moscow says that guerrillas behind the German lines around Smolensk have killed 15.000 of the enemy and accounted for 27 planes mid 34 tanks.

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