GERMANS BURN WOUNDED RUSSIANS ALIVE.
SHOCKING INSTANCE OF BARBARITY ADMITTED. LESSON TO RUSSIANS NOT TO LEAVE WOUNDED BEHIND. (Received July 7, 11.30 p.m.) Peteogead, July 7. The Russian newspaper Xovoe Vremya has carefully investigated a charge against the Germans of burning alive wounded Russian soldiers, together with the doctors attending them. The wounded men were infectious cases from the Carpathians. They were left in a Jesuit college at Chyrow. When the Germans came up they removed the stricken men to isolated wooden barracks, with the Russian doctors attending them. They shut all the windows and the door, and poured paraffin on the building, burning 100 men alive. The Germans do not deny the fact. German aeroplanes dropped proclamations pointing out that they were forced to resort to cruelty as a stern necessity in order not to carry infection into their own army, and to teach the Russians not to leave sick and wounded behind, thus burdening the German medical staff. The proclamation concludes with the hope that the Russians will learn from the lesson.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15964, 8 July 1915, Page 7
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