TOURISTS BRUTALLY TREATED. WOMEN TURNED OUT OF HOSPITALS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2489, 7 November 1914, Page 4

TOURISTS BRUTALLY TREATED. WOMEN TURNED OUT OF HOSPITALS.

Mr Harold Williams, a New Zealandcr who is acting as Petrograd correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle, on August i, said: —

The Russian forces havo entered Galicia, and occupied the town of Sokel, on the railway leading to Leinberg,' and driven back the Austrian troops.

A .German cruiser has bred 20 shells at the island of Dago. vSarusonoff has issued in Warsaw, a proclamation thanking tho Reservists for their readiness and orderliness in coming to the colours, and assuring the, Polish people that their persons and property will ho especially protected by the Russian troops.

Tho Russian Poles have definitely taken up a position entirely supporting Russia. Their bitterness against Germany has boon increased by tho harsh treatment lo which Polish'workniQii and Polish tourists, including many political and social leaders, have been subjected in Germany since the outbreak of war.

A NOVELIST'S EXPERIENCES

The thousands of Russian tourists who continue to arrive here via Tornet (Gulf' of Bothnia) tell amazing stones of the sufferings they endured in attempting to return home from various German health resorts. My friend tho novelist, M. Remizoff, who with his wifo arrived here yesterday after a iourney of. 12 days from Berlin, had a typical experience. They loft Berlin on the day Germany declared war against Russia. Within 75 miles of tho frontier 1000 Russians in fclio train by which they were travelling were turned out ol the carriages and compelled to spend 18 hours without food in an open field surrounded by soldiers with fixed bayonets.

lliey, were all placed in dirty oaltie waggons, about 60 men women and children to a waggon, and for 28 hours earned about Prussia withouo lood, drink, or privacy. In Stettin they were lodged in pigpens, and next morning they were sent off by steamer to Ruegen, whence they made their way, without money or luggage, to Denmark and Sweden.

TURNED OUT OF SICK BEDS

The Swedes provided food and a free passage to the Russian frontier. Five of M. Remizoff's fellow-passengers went mad.

Their experience, however, was a comparatively light one coinpareq with the sufferings of others. Russian women were turned out of German hospitals, and many died. Several Russians were shot, and many beaten, some of their wonion being maltreated.

It is noteworthy that it is only in Germany that Russians have thus been treated. In Austria they suffered nothing beyond inevitable inconvenience. In Russia there have been no personal attacks or demonstrations against German subjects. In Germany, again, tho oases of brutality are reported chiefly from Prussia. The stories of returned travellers awaken intense indignation here, but they are not likely to lead to any reprisals against German subjects. Indeed; while German and Austrian men liable for service are being arrested and banished, the internal governments and the Mayor of St. Pet* ersburg are taking steps to see that German and , Austrian women and children do not suffer from want.

OUR SAMOAN GARRISON

__-Wellington, November 4. His Excellency the Governor has received the following cablegram from the Administrator of Samoa regarding the health of troops there: "General health, fair. Artillery— Gunner Gibbs, fever; Bombardier Pierard and thinner Hatch, dysentery. Railway Engineers—Privates Manning and McDonald, fever. Auckland Regiment—Privates Eraser, fever; Hay, dysentery; Bayne, chest, quest, Bromley, and Roberts, fever; Sergeant Brooke tt (convalescent); Campbell and Corporal Hutchison, dysentery; Private Hook, slight injury. Army Service Corps—Sergeant Anderson (convalescent). Medical Corps—Private Reeves, fever. All doing well."