TEUTON BRUTALITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

TEUTON BRUTALITY.

5000 RUSSIAN PRISONERS SHOT. Is addition to the terrible details of German treatment of prisoners which were published recently by the Russian Official Agency, the following appalling story is issued from the Russian General Staff. Prisoners belonging to the 6th Austrian Army Corps captured on the Lubin-Cholm front a few days ago, report, on the authority of complements newly-arrived from the rear, that the Germans at Rawa Russka have shot 5000 Russian prisoners. Men belonging to these complements had seen a huge common raven, where these men, shot in cold blood, were buried. There is this much good in such an awful story of German brutality, that it indicates that the enemy is feeling the pinch of straitened means of communication. The Germans generally prefer to torture their prisoners and, at best, to parade them through as many German towns as possible. But the shooting of 5000 men implies the dire necessity of a difficult situation. It all goes down in the bill which the Teuton must pay to Christendom.