MONSTROUS INFAMY.
PRIsOXERS FOR FIGHTING LIXK. " Hie Timet " Seryiee. (Received .March G, 2.90 p.m.) LOXDOX, March 5. Tudor tlip German War .Minister's direction ihons;tnd-; of war prisoners will bo employed in the C'< e-rmau lines as a reprisal. This is generally regarded as u preliminary 'to future atrocitoes. The " Daily Mail" describes this as the maximum of infamy, as it is doubtless intended to us?, the prisoners ■ r.s serpens in coming bat-ties. Similar assertions preceded the previous use of Belgirui prisoners n.s screens for gas. Paris newspapers urge neutrals to inervene.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11948, 6 March 1917, Page 1
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