STORIES OF ILL-TREATMENT
PRISONERS HELD BY AXIS IN DESERT VISIT BY MUSSOLINI London, Nov. 26. Stories of ill-treatment while in the hands of Germans and Italians were told by prisoners who were released by the Eighth Army’s advance into Libya. Former prisoners said that when two prisoners gave the “V“ sign while Germans were photographing a small enclosure in which the prisoners were confined, the guards fired, killing one and wounding several. Mussolini visited the prisoners’ camp at Derna in June and asked in English about the food and water. Two prisoners replied that the food was rotten and there was not enough water. When Mussolini had gone two guards came and belted the men with straps. A party of 17 including New Zealanders led by an Australian organised an escape through a tunnel, but someone coughed at the crucial moment and the whole party was removed and not seen again. The rescued prisoners also told of men chained to telegraph poles under the burning sun for 24 hours, others were lashed and others were weighted down by the arms.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 27 November 1942, Page 5
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