TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13937, 12 December 1918, Page 5

TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

ALLIED DEMANDS ON GERMANY. (Australian, N.Z. and Reuter.) Received Dec. 11, 7.35 p.m. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 10. Tlie French armistice delegates at Spa unconditionally demanded greater liberty for war prisoners in Germany. The Germans unsuccessfully sought to extract mutual concessions.

195,000 RELEASED IN GERMANY. (Australian, N.Z. and Reuter.) Received Dec. 11, 8.20 p.m. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 10. Berlin reports state that the total Allied prisoners released number 195,000, including 105,000 French and 63,000 British. LATEST FORM OF HUN BRUTALITY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received Dec. 11, 10.50 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 10. The repatriated prisoners bear the marks of the latest form of Hun brutality. Many have extensive tattooings on their necks and bodies, including' iron crosses, German flags and Imperial eagles. The victims declare that the tato6ings were executed in 1 most cases out of sheer German dovilishness, hut sometimes as a punishment for minor misdemeanours in prison camps. Many soldiers bear the words "God save the Kaiser" and "fiott straaf England" upon their foreheads and necks, also snakes designed in red and blue extending from the cheeks to their shoulders. The commonest design is a spider called the "spider of death" placed above the eyes, with its legs extending over yie head, ears, neck and face. Many of the victims are in hospital undergoing the long process of skin-grafting to obliterate these imprints of Hunnishness.