AUSTRIAN FRIGHTFULNESS.
MASSACRE OF PRISONERS. SHOT BY CADETS IN PRESENCE OF COMRADES. (Received January 31, 9.45 a.m.) PETROGRAD, January 30. The Headquarters Staff has issued the evidence of six Russian prisoners who escaped from Austria. They witnessed the execution of four comrades for refusing to work on defences. Five hundred prisoners participated in the refusal to work, and four were selected for execution. Austrian cadets carried out the sentence. An Austrian deserter confirms this statement, and adds that his regiment was sent to Brunerbad to force the prisoners to work. When they persisted in refusing to work, 20 of them were tied to trees in a brutal manner, and some of them implored their torturers to shoot them. After two hours all were unconscious from syncope. A non-commissioned officer was literally crucified. The remaining prisoners still refused to work, and five were ordered to be shot in the presence of their comrades. Each victim was shot by a separate batch of cadets.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 616, 31 January 1916, Page 7
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162AUSTRIAN FRIGHTFULNESS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 616, 31 January 1916, Page 7
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