GENERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17322, 23 May 1918, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

BRITISH PRISONERS IN GERMANY. EVIDENCE OF CALLOUS BRUTALITY. DEATHS THROUGH INHUMANITY. lieutcr's Telegrams. LONDON, May 21,. (Received May 22, at 7.30 p.m.) The Times gives prominence to further authenticated atrocities, systematic tortures, and cold-blooded murders of British prisoners in Germany, of which the sum total of the evidence proves incredibly inhuman treatment. The article instances a number of seriously wounded prisoners who were brutally forced to work long hours. One on holding up his hand to prove his unfitness to work was shot dead, and hie body was thrown into a dirty washhouse. At Schneidemuhl the British were without huts. They scooped out and lived in holes in the ground. One who did not obey an order which he failed to understand was stripped to the waist, tied to a barrel, and. savagely beaten. An officer struck him with his sword, spat on him, and called him an English swine. The man died as the result of this treatment. At Langenhalza 300. wounded men were herded in a large hut without bedding. Five died during the night, and the remaining prisoners were left in the broiling sun for three hours, and seven more died subsequently. Througli calculated neglect and ill-treatment 50 more succumbed. Details of the conditions in this camp are too revolting for publication. EXPELLED FROM FRANCE. MANCHESTER GUARDIAN'S CORRESPONDENT. Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, May 21. The French Government has expelled Robert Dell,' the Manchester Guardian's Paris correspondent, in consequence of an' article on the 1917 peace negotiations. DISABLED SOLDIERS' WORK. KING AiJT) QUEEN INTERESTED. LONDON, May 21. Australia and New Zealand are well represented at the exhibition for the aftercare of disabled soldiers. Their Majesties were specially interested in the exhibits at the Anzac stalls, and complimented the disabled men on their work. NEW ZEALANDER'S THANKOFFERING. SYDNEY, May 22. During the recruiting appeal Mr H. P. M. Berry, of Christchurch, New Zealand, handed in a cheque for £200 to insure 10 recruits. He made this gift as a thankoffering for the safe return of his son, whom he had just met, though ho returned badly wounded. THE GERMAN PROPAGANDA. FRANCE'S REPLY. LONDON, Mav 21. (Received May 22, at 9.30 p.m.) Empire Day celebrations were held in many French towns in honour of the Empire's war effort.