SUFFERINGS OF PRISONERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 22 November 1918, Page 5

SUFFERINGS OF PRISONERS.

LAMENTABLE CONDITION OF RELEASED BRITISH. PRESS DEMANDS HOSTAGES FROM GERMANY. ARMISTICE IN PERIL IF SUCH CRIMES CONTINUE.

PARIS, Nov. 0. Further details of tiie Horrible sufferings of British and other prisoners, who have been released from Germany und^r the 'armistice terms, nave caused widespread indignation. They show fcaat the men were turned out of the camps practically f oodless, and f orced< to tramp over desolated country in the most bitter weather. Few had coats, and the soles were dropping from their boots. A number died on the roadside. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

LONDON, Nov. 0. Correspondents continue their pitiful accounts of British, prisoners arriving at Nancy, all being in a lamentable condition, their faces pincked and their clothes held together with stung. Some were wearing horse-cloths and women's garments, while all were terribly hungry. They had been treated like slaves

Several hundred British were lost in the woods on the line, and French soldiers, on searching, discovered three hundred dying from nunger and fatigue. The -^newspapers are making angry protests against the enemy's barbarity, which is increasing daily.—Au6.-N.Z* Cable Assn.

The sufferings of released British prisoners have caused a sensation in Britain, the camps being compared to the Black. Hole of Calcutta and other historical barbarities.

The papers suggest that prominent Germans should be demanded as hostages for better treatment, and the names of the commandants of the prison camps peremptorily demanded The Daily News says that if' such crimes continue the armistice will be gravely imperilled, as civilised states cannot tolerate savages on their borders. —Reuter.