THE WAY OF THE HUN
ILL-TREATING PRISONERS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. ' LONDON, Jan. 171 Prisoners who have escaped from German camps and have reached England narrate horrible punishments on Englishmen refusing to work in the mines. An offender is striped naked and is thrown into a cell containing heated hot air. The walls and root" are double boarded and the heat is suffocating, the only ventilation being a hole .the size of a crown piece. The man sweats and gasps for a time. Ho is then taken, still naked, and made to stand outside in any weather. The extremes of climate are a real torture. If the spirit of tho man is still unbroken he is knocked unconscious by a blow on his head, with the butt end of a rifle. He is then taken, to a mine. He is not allowed to' come to the surface until he agrees to work.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16447, 19 January 1918, Page 9
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153THE WAY OF THE HUN Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16447, 19 January 1918, Page 9
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