BULGARIAN CRUELTY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 81, 3 October 1944, Page 5

BULGARIAN CRUELTY

| ALLIED SOLDIER'S CHARGES LONDON, October 2. Many Allied airmen died in a Bulgarian prisoner of war camp from negligence and cruelty, alleges an Allied air sergeant who arrived in Cairo from Bulgaria. He has signed a sworn statement describing the conditions in the camp. He told the Cairo correspondent oi the British United Press: "I saw a fellow-prisoner operated on for stomach injuries. Immediately after the operation an attendant jerked him into a sitting position.- The stitches burst,, and he fell back dead. Another prisoner who had head injuries was put into solitary confinement for four days without medical aid. He also died. Two hundred Allied prison- | ers were kept in a room intended foi 50 people."

The sergeant, who was wounded in the foot when shot down over Bulgaria, said that the prison doctors operated on him without an anaesthetic. \ "When I screamed a nurse struck me," he said. "During the operation a Bulgarian officer came intq the room and said, 'You .bombed Sofia,' and hit me in the face with the butt o] his gun. The doctor laughed, at th« incident. My foot developed .gangrene, and I had to undergo another opera* tion."