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DETAINED BY GERMANY. ROTTERDAM, Aug. 25. Several incapacitated British non- ' commissioned officers were removed from the train on the border of Holland and detained by Germany on > the ground that an exchange of prisoners was undesirable, as the British might bo able to instruct recruits. "KULITR"' WITH A SEARING IRON. PETROGRAD, Aug. 25. Evidence is forthcoming of atrocities at L'Puvka, where the Germans failing to extract information from a dying Cossack named Antonoff, branded him with a red hot iron, and hung another man head downwards and killed him. Two students at Kalisch interposed between the firing party and their father. who refused to give information. The father's execution was postponed: the J students were eourt-mart-iallecl. j
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Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15741, 27 August 1915, Page 8
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