CRUEL TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS BEATEN AND STABBED. EXPOSURES BEFORE COURT OF INQUIRY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 29, 9.15 a.m.) PETROGRAD, January 28. The committee which is inquiring into the German atrocities on prisoners, publishes a statement of a private in the Dublin Fusiliers. He saw at Mannheim a group of Russian prisoners surrounded by an escort in marching order. The captain proposed that the prisoners should work on the French front. They declined, whereupon the escort beat them with their rifle butts and stabbed them with bayonets. The officer beat them on the heads with the flat of his sword and then used the point. The wounded prisoners were thrust on a train for removal.
The British prisoners protested loudly and were locked in the barracks.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 926, 29 January 1917, Page 7
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