AUSTRIAN BRUTALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11619, 10 July 1916, Page 5

AUSTRIAN BRUTALITIES.

PRISONERS’ SHOCKING SUFFERINGS. OFFICERS REVOLTING ORGIES. (Antralian and N.Z, Cable Association.) Received July 10, 11 a.m. New York, July 9. s The World’s Rome correspondent reltes the shocking sorrows of Austrian prison camps where Poles and Italians experience terrible suffering. Priests, professors and Jddies are forced to live in revolting promiscuity and sanitation is so bad that typhoid has killed two thousand. Terrible filth brought on gangreve, followed by careless amputations. When baths are provided men and women are compelled to cross open spaces perfectly naked. At - the women’s, baths Austrian officers organised revolting orgies. GERMAN VIEW OF THE POSI- ; TION. ■ Loudon, July 9, The Frankfurter Zeltung says; All are aware that the military situation is critical. Proper utilisation of the forces demands weighty consideration. The responsibility devolving on the staff in tno West is terrible, but our fortress is firm.