WITTENBURG CAMP.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11670, 10 April 1916, Page 6

WITTENBURG CAMP.

• MORE AWFUL DETAILS, f GERMANS JEER AT BRITISH DEAD « TERRIBLE STORY CONTINUED. ijjj. Telegraph— ~Pr**s Association—Copyright. i (Received April 10, noon.) LONDON. April 9. ."• There were 1000 cases of typhus on VMarcli 7 and fifty .fresh cases daily, i " fExtremo difficulty was experienced iu '. getting drugs and dressings, and when ' • ithey were, supplied they proved hopcJlesdy inadequate. - -4 LIMBS LOST. Sffitt-. lost their toes aud feet- from tpost-typhus gangrene, aud many had ; their legs amputated from the same 1 cause. One British soldier, now in ! England, lost- both legs. f NO SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS. There was practically no hospital ' and only one small disinfec{.tor. The men had to wear their outer ~ ! garments -while the inner were being | disinfected and vice versa,, because the j blankets were insufficient to keep them rwarm. Tlio washing of patients was out of ; question until much later, when *oap camo from England. The dead were buried within the i-carnp, the cemetery being so small that } the coffins were piled up. - '■; THE HARDEST PART. , . ' The hardest trial of all was to hear the townspeople outside the entanglements jeering and insulting the dead. . ; BRAVE MEN DIE. Major Pry, and Captains Sutcliffo and Field died of typhus, as also did many devoted English prisoners who Tolunteered to nurse their comrades. "Convalescents had to be discharged -,' scarcely able- to walk, and they were obliged to lie on the bare floor of the ' barracks. Out of 300 English cases sixty died. The report-records that the maguifi- - " . cent efforts of the British doctors were fsuccessful in stamping out the, epi'•demic, BRUTAL DOCTOR. It mentions Dr Asehenbach. the German medical officer. avlio fled ;it- the : first outbreak and only entered the j 1 camp once, being completely protected. 'his outfit r'ncluding mask and gloves. \He has since been awarded the Iron Cross for his services in combating the disease. On one occasion lie refused .'Major l'ry's .entreaty, for necessaries, i falling the victims "English swine.'' I . The committee has tried, to iind justi- i ' fication for tills treatment, but can find none. It- is only in keeping with ,ihe camps history from the beginning. " DOGS AND FLOGGING. f Savage dogs were employed to terrorise- the prisoners and flogging with a whip was frequent. . The responsibility is directly chargeable to the cruelty neglect of the German officials.