SHAMEFUL BARBARISM.
PERSECUTED PRISONERS.
WORKED TO DEATH
(Received 9.25 p.m.)
LONDON, June -2
An official report regarding the treatment of prisoners of war is published to-day. It confirms the unofficial stories'of shameful barbarism. One man captured in March was compelled to work immediately, serving a German field gun with ammunition and digging a position for it under British fire. The working party, including warrant officers, non-coms, and medical men were made to work on roads and light railways under shellfire. They were knocked about with rifle butts and sticks, and one man was thrashed until he lay on the ground groaning. One working party had a corporal killed and three men wounded by shellfire. Many behind the lines died of weakness. When fresh batches were captured.. they were kept working behind' the lines instead of being , sent- to a registered camp.—A. and N.Z. ' - '
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Northern Advocate, 3 June 1918, Page 3
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