GERMAN SAVAGE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11616, 15 August 1918, Page 5

GE RMAN SAVAGE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

HATE SHIFTED TO AMERICA

THE itIENU FOR ENFORCED WORKERS.

Received August 15, P. 50 a.m. Hew York, August 14,

Tlie Herald’s correspondent on the west front interviewed two British escaped priosuers. They said four thousand British prisoners and one thousand Russian prisoners were forced by the Germans to build a railway system south of the Aisue, below Yesle. The Germans had changed the signs from “Gott Strafe England!” (0 ‘‘Gott stiffs America!” One told the correspondent that the Germans wore using paper bandages in hospitals. English and French bombers had created a panic and had caused the'greatest havoc in the Rhine country. American wounded prisoners are inhumanly treated. The prisoners’ daily rations were: Breakfast, a pint of coffee, made from hawthorn berries luncheon, vegetable soup of dried vegetables supper, a pint of coffee and three quarters of a pound of black bread, on which diet they were forced to work from daylight to dark.