RED CROSS PRISONERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 11, 14 January 1915, Page 5

RED CROSS PRISONERS.

BRITISH DOCTORS RELEASED

FROM CAPTIVITY

INSOLENTLY TREATED AND

POORLY FED.

(Received Jan. 13, 11.15 p.m.) Jan. 13. Five British, army doctors have been released after five months' captivity at Magdeburg. They include Ih-. Austin and Dr. Elliott, of the Red Cross Corp©, who were arrested in Belgium, where they intended to establish a hospital, court-martialled for espionage, arid sent to Cologne, where, after a fortnight of solitary confinement, they were re-tried several times and sent to Torge. They were subjected to insolent treatment and poorly fed.