"WORSE THAN HELL."
BRITISH PRISONERS IN GERMANY.
STARVED, FLOGGED, AND BAYONETED BY THEIR CAPTORS.
(Received April 27, 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 26.
The Speaker of the House of Commons (the Right Hon. J. "W". Lowther), speaking at a recruiting meeting, at Fulham, read an authenticated letter concerning the treatment of British prisoners in Germany. The letter stated: — 44 We are being starved here on rice, water; and horse beans, and the only solid food we get is one loaf of bread every six days. Our guards have bayoneted several, while others have been flogged and tied up to a barbed-wire fence-post for six hours, with their toes just touching the ground. We have hardly anything to wear, our captors having taken most of our clothes. It is worse than being in hell. \ >'
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 378, 27 April 1915, Page 7
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132"WORSE THAN HELL." Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 378, 27 April 1915, Page 7
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