LEST WE FORGET.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3997, 22 November 1918, Page 2

LEST WE FORGET.

FURTHER REVELATIONS OF HUN

BRUTALITIES

The Daily Mail correspondent at The Hague said on September 13:— Some British prisoners for England came from the camp at Krossen (not far from Leipzig), to which was brought a few days previously about 140 British and 10 Americans who had been forced since May to work 'behind' the German lines in circumstances beyond description. Some were suffering from dropsical conditions following on untended flesh wounds; nevertheless, they had been forced to carry heavy rails and sleepers or push trucks. When they dropped through sheer exhaustion they were spurred on with bayonet pricks. A man of the Royal Scots* was hit over the head with a rifle-but" and died during the night. Five or six died immediately after arrival at Krossen; and an American suffering from dropsy and scarcely able to walk was carried off from Krossen to serve as an interpreter, ■ .. . '

One of my informants said : "When the men arrived at, Krossen their legs were either thin as drumsticks or swollen to twice the normal size." Facts- regarding the treatment of Russians also require notice. At Soltau, Russians are dying off like fliesThey are treated with the most inhuman brutality and are starving. Recently a Russian who was too waak to work and protested had his head beaten in like an eggshell