TORTURING PRISONERS.
ESCAPED ANZAC'S TALE. STARVATION AND BRUTALITY. LONDON, Oct. 11. Private, H. West, a West Australian escapee from Germany, relates a shockin.' storv of ill-treatment, Ho was captured at Mouquet Farm in September last year, and forced to work at an aerodrome at Cambrai for long hours and under disgusting conditions. He was tra.nsferred to Bulmen. and thence to Zuarries, and treated with the utmost brutality. The lood was unfit for pigs, and the hours of work twelve, in all weathers. He became sick,-' and was transferred to Friederichfeld, where he was set to cuttin k firewood. He escaped in June, ai d after many privations reached the border - A German sentry recaptured him, ~,.(( he was returned to Friedenehleld, where he received fourteen days in the cells on bread and water. He was then sent' to AValsum, arid worked in the Her mills under hard' conditions, lhe n ess of food induced him to escape En and learning from his previous experience, he eluded the sentries and reached Holland, where he took ship for England.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10114, 23 October 1917, Page 5
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176TORTURING PRISONERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10114, 23 October 1917, Page 5
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