THE SERVIANS.
HORRORS OF THE HUNS
London, June 24. Details have reached Salonika of t'lo treatment of. Serbian prisoners in Austro-Hungary. These show that 21,000 died of typhoid in two concentration camps. The few thousand who remain are suffering from tuberculosis and other diseases. A large number are interned in a third camp at Caehaek, which is a, depot for labour battalions for tho Italian front. There have been 20,000 deaths there in the last six months. Frightfully emaciated prisoners clad in rags are seen daily fighting like famished beasts among the refuse heaps for scraps and bones. No fewer than 108 Serbians were frozen to death in a single hut on March 18. The dead and dying were thrown into huge graves and covered with rquicklime. i
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3276, 26 June 1917, Page 2
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