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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 300, 21 November 1918, Page 6

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TOTAL GERMAN' CASUALTIES

ONE AND A-HALF MILLION KILLED. (Received 21, 2.50 p.m.) Amsterdam, N ov. 20. The “Vorwaerts is reliably informed that 1,580,000 Germans were killed in the war, -1,000,000 were wounded, and -190,000 taken prisoner. The fate of 260,000 is unknown. —(Uniter Service.) BRUTALITY TO PRISONERS. WIDESPREAD fNDLGNATION. (Received 21, 2.50 p.m.) Paris, Nov. 20. Further d&tails r>f horrible suffer ings of the British and other pri souers released by Germany unde; the armistice terms have cause*i widespread indignation. They show that the men were turned out of the camps practically i'oodless, am: forced to tramp through desolate-' country in the bitterest weather. Only a few had coats, and the soles were dropping from the boots of t-ite majority. A number died by the roadside. —(A. N.Z.) AR MI ST 10 E GRAV E L Y IMPERILLED. London, Nov. 20. The. knowledge of the sufferings of released British prisoners ,ba ■ caused a sensation in the Britisn camps. The tragedy of their lives compared baclly with the Clack Hole of Calcutta and other historical barbarities. The newspapers suggest that prominent Germans should bv demanded as hostages for the better ti-.-ai-inent of our men. and t.ual tut names of eonimandams ot prison camps be peremptorlli d- iiiau.c. d. T'i;-? "Dailv N -v?" say.-..- "It .such crimes continue the armistice win be gravely imperilled. a§ civilised States cannot tolerate savages on their borders.