GERMAN TREATMENT OF PRISONERS
Savage Abominations
LONDON, October b\ The Daily Chronicle sitates: Ani official Whiito Paper will be issued shortly, giviing aufchvanticaited particulars of the Germaai treatajent of British ,pfisosiers. The case? relate! j patinoipaliy to employment in military work immediaiceily behind the lines. Many were killed by shell' fire, nu'mbersi wer©'starved'to death, and otliea-s reached Germany in a dyinjg; comditioin. -Their bodSes -were: wasted by overwork, disease, and insufficienfc food. They are described a« walking skeletons 1. Casesi have been knoiwn where twelve stooae men dwiiidled to stix stoinpt in. a few months. Prisoners! were % some time employed im removing; the debrisi. of ammunition! *y3lum!psi piartiaJly ex.pioded' by'oiui- airmen,, amd "tnere were niumeirous,l deatihs from exploding shells). If remains to be seen whether Sir George Caive can, obtain any remedy for these eavagie abomiriatioms.—'A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13819, 8 October 1918, Page 4
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