GERMAN ATROCITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15132, 29 January 1917, Page 7

GERMAN ATROCITIES.

SHOCKING TREATMENT OF

PRISONERS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received January 20. 2.30 p.m-. PETROGRAD. January 28.

The committee of inquiry into German atrocities on prisoners publishes the statement of a private of the Dublin Fusiliers, who saw at-Mannheim a group of Russian prisoners surrounded br an escort in marching order. The captain proposed to the prisoners that they should work on the French front, but they declined, whereupon the escort beat them with their rifle butts and stabbed them with bayonets. An officer beat them on their heads with the fiat of his sword, and then used the point. Wounded prisoners were thrust into a train. British prisoners protested loudly, and were locked in barracks.