GERMAN INHUMANITY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 October 1914, Page 5

GERMAN INHUMANITY.

ILL-TREATMENT OF BRITISH

WOUNDED

(Received Oct; 19, 10.30 a.m.)

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 18

A, war, cm respondent fur the newspaper Tyde travelled in a train coitveying two thousand wounded from to Landen on the ninth. He saw there seventy wounded British lying on filthy straw and without fowl for five days. German soldiers distributed soup to the others, but tantalised the Britishers by holding the food to their noses and then withholding it. They spat in the wounded men's, facai and on the correspondent protesting "that these British had done their duty like the other Britishers, a sergeant roared, "They are dirty mercenaries." Not one of a hundred Germans present •offered the least aid to their dying <eheniies.