GERMAN SOLDIERS' HARDSHIPS
SUFFERING FROM DYSENTERY. ORDERED NOT TO TAKE PRISONERS. (Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) Received August 29, 9.15 p.m. LONDON, August 29. A letter from a German in the 13th Army Corps, picked up on the Somme, states that the whole corps is suffering from dysentery, the result of eight days' and nights' fighting without hot food, while they are parched with thirst in the daytime. The whole battlefield is full of dead. We §ie ordered not to take prisoners, but to despatch them all with the bayonet. The writer adds: "That would not be so bad, but it*"the English also will not take prisoners, what then?"
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Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13272, 30 August 1916, Page 5
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