FLOGGED DAILY BY GERMANS.
Another ghastly s!ory of German fiendishness to prisoners is told by lrivate W. Hay cox, who has just reached his home at Chesterfield after bemt captured near Lille on October 20th, 19 His party suffered the usual brutal treatment—refusal of water, missiles, starvation etc. He was sent, \\ others, in a salt mine. The conditions were so bad' that they refused, to work. Each was in- turn bayoneted and thrashed til) they were knocked out. Haycox was stabbed' in both legsOn recovering they were placed in a hut up to the waist in water, and were kept there for seven days. Evory morning they were flogged, and on the seventh day they wero taken back to the mine and floggod again. On another occasion, when a sergeant in the Grenadier Guards refused the coffee provided, a German soldier placed his rifle in the sergeant s mouth and blew his head practically off.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16417, 10 January 1919, Page 5
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155FLOGGED DAILY BY GERMANS. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16417, 10 January 1919, Page 5
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