EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1917, Page 2

EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.

HUNS’ SHOCKING CRUELTY

MISSIONARIES BADLY TREATED

LONDON, September 25

A White Paper lias been Urued which gives shocking details of the treatment of British prisoners and natives in German East Africa. Sworn depositions prove that civilians, including missionaries and ladies, were compelled to carry out disgusting tasks in order to humiliate them in the eyes of the natives and to undermine British prestige. Several missionaries were confined in vermin-infested cells' for the most trivial offences and the women were treated with scandalous indecency in the presence of native guards.

The natives were continually beaten, with hippopotamus hide whips,. The victim would lie laid in the centre of the prison camp, with five natives holding- his limbs and head, while a. sergeant applied twenty-five lashes. After parade at Roma sometimes as many as a quarter of the native soldiers!, many of whom had been pressed into service } were flogged for mistakes at drill. FURTHER BRITISH SUCCESSES. ENEMY LOSE HEAVILY. [Australian and N-Z. Cable Association.] Received this day at 11.35 a.m. LONDON, September 25. East Africa Official: The enemy evacuated Mmhambia, south-west of Kihvaon, on the 19th after a stubborn resistance and retreated to Opinigo. The enemy evacuated Ndessa, . south-west of Minhambia, on the 21st and the entire enemy foise in this region fell back on t lie Obemkura River on the 23rd. ■ Our Nigerian infantry barred the rdtreat, the enemy losing heavlfy. Wo dispersed small parties along the river,-