PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14128, 3 July 1916, Page 5

PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

SYSTEMATIC ILL-TBEATMBNT.

PROTEST BY M. PICHON.

ALLIED REPRISALS FORE-

SHADOWED

Paris, June 30.

■M. Piehon publishes in the "Petit Journal an emphatic protest against German cruelty to prisoners. They are deprived of food, beaten,' and compelled to work beyond their strength. They the subjected to odious discipline, and are imprisoned on the saallest pretext in overcrowded and revolting places. The sick are allowed* to die unattended. "We must expect stich treatment from a nation responsible for brutality and savagery throughout the war, and it is necessary for the Allies to take common actio.'i is systematic reprisals.