GERMAN ATROCITIES
DIABOLICAL TREATMENT OF RUSSIANS. AWFUL SUFFERINGS OF PRISONERS. and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Feb. 19, 8.55 a.m.) PETROGRAD, Feb. 18. The Russian Commission of Inquiry into German atrocities reports shocking cruelties on unarmed wounded men, who were murdered in cold blood, War prieonr's were burned alive, and Sisters of Mercy violated. Explosive bullets were enormously used, and quantities been discovered. The sufferings of wounded soldiers were horrible, the enemy pouring corrosive fluids over them.
The report mentions that members of the Gemran Red Cross twice shot with a revolver wounded men who asked for ■bandages. With a view to extracting information from a Cossack the enemy connected ar. electric needle to his wounded; leg, for half an hour, but he heroically persisted in his .silence.'._ This was repeated the two following days. Then red hot irons were applied to ins feet. The Cossack eventually escaped.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 19 February 1917, Page 5
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