DESTROYING ITALIAN MANHOOD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 19 July 1918, Page 6

DESTROYING ITALIAN MANHOOD.

, . . — Italian prisoners in Austria are subjected to horrible outrages, states a despatch to the Italian Embassy in I Washington. r "Never in tho history of the civilised World have such outrages been regie- ; tered," it says. "The whole thing seems to be a systematic effort on the | part of Austria to destroy the manhood of Italy. Austria is endeavoring in every possible way to surpass in cruelty and ferocity all of her accomplices." The despatch says Italian prisoners have been stripped and left, without food or care if wounded. Most of them die of hunger and of plagu-e. Tuberculosis is raging, and thousands of consumptives fill the concentration camps. When their condition becomes desperate the prisoners are returned to Italy in exchange for Austrian prisoners, whose condition in Italian camps has improved. Tn the last 300 prisoners sent back to- Italy from Austria all were suffering from tuberculosis in a very advanced stage.