BRITISH SOLDIERS ILL-TREATED.
STARVED AND INSULTED. , GERMANS' INHUMAN SPITE. (Received October 19, 8.50 a.m.) ' LONDON, October 18. A war correspondent of a newspaper who travelled in a train conveying two thousand wounded from Brussels to Landcn, on' October 9, saw there seventy wounded British soldiers lying on filthy straw. They had been without'food for five days. German Soldiers' distributed soup to others, but tantalised the
. Britishers, holding food to their noses, . and then withholding it, and spitting in . their faces. On the correspondent protesting that - the Britishers had done their duty like the other wounded, a sergeant roared: . "They are dirty mercenaries." Not one of the hundred Germans present offered the least aid to their dying enemies.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 218, 19 October 1914, Page 7
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