ILL-TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.
SHOCKING CRUELTY TO SERBIANS (United Service.) LONDON, June 24. Details have reached Salonika of tlie treatment of Serbian prisoners by Aus-tro-Hungary. Twenty-four thousand died of typhoid at two concentration camps, and a fcAV thousand remain suffering from tuberculosis and other disease*!./. A large number Avere ii/terne'd at a ; third camp at Cachack Avliich Avas tin; j depot for a labor battalion for work on tho Italian front. There Avere twenty thousand deaths there during the last six months. Frightfully emaciated/ prisoners, clad m rags, AA-ero seen daily fighting like, famished beasts on the (refuse heaps ' for scraps and bonas. One hundred and eight Serbians Avere frozen to death m a single hut on March 18, and the dead and dying Avere' thrown • into huge graves and covered Avith quicklime.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14334, 26 June 1917, Page 3
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