SUFFERINGS OF PRISONERS.
GEBMANS WITHOUT HEART. RAVAGES OF TYPHUS. HUNDREDS DIE OF DISEASE. (Received December "9, 2 ».m ) London, December 8. The released prisoners who have reached Flushing include a number of maimed soldiers, the majority with pinched faces and Bunked eyes. They were wearing the shabbiest of clothes, contrasting strongly with the warm suits and overcoats supplied to the well-fed Germans who were returned to Germany the same night. The returned prisoners detail shocking happenings at Wittenburg, where 15,000 interned prisoners were treated in the most brutal - fashion. Typhus broke out, killing hundreds The German guards immediately fled. Six British army doctors from other camps volunteered to go to Wittenburg. Five of them immediately contracted typhus, three dying from the disease.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16096, 9 December 1915, Page 6
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