BRUTALLY TREATED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 5

BRUTALLY TREATED

ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR London, April 20. Reuter’s correspondent with the British says that General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery conferred for 60 minutes in Eisenhower’s private plane on a captured Luftwaffe airfield a few miles from the front to-day, and afterwards strolled through a group of British, Canadian and American soldiers liberated earlier in the week from a camp south of Hamburg. . Their rations, they told General Eisenhower, consisted of potato soup, and watery turnip brew. Many of the 90Q0 in the camp died of starvation and others wore beaten to death. An American sergeant described brutal thrashings he received from a Gestapo captain. “Would you recognise him if you saw him aeain? General Eisenhower asked. “Yes, and T would like to kill him.” “Just let us get him,” said the General. “We will do the rest.” of Weissensee, are fighting in the area of the circular railway around Berlin. The Russians, .at Fur.ienwalde yesterday. killed 8000 Germans. “The Baltic Red Fleet sank an 8000 ton transport. “Red Air Force planes at Pillau sank a 6000-ton transport. A Berlin correspondent of the Ger-man-controlled Scandinavian Telegram Bureau, reports that a machinegun battle is being fought out at Stettiner railway station and the Russians are approaching Tern pel hof airfield. I ile adds: “Berlin is invested except for nine miles north-west of the 1 capital.