FROSTBITE IN THE TRENCHES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2389, 19 February 1915, Page 5

FROSTBITE IN THE TRENCHES

; 9175 OASES SO. PIE.. : , (Rec. February 18, 11.35 pja.) Londoni February 18. Mr. H. J. Tennant, Parliamentary; Under-Secretary of State for' Wax, speaking in the House of Commons, said that there had. been 9175 cases of frostbite up till January 24. TORTURED TO MADNESS i BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF, " PRIESTS. London, February 17. Monsignor De Wacliter, Bishop to Cardinal Mercier, preaching at Willesden (Middlesex) said that four priests, who had returned from Germany, in-.; formed him that while prisoners they 1 were given the foulest and vilest work to do. As prisoners they were brought out! with English and French prisoners and placed against a wall; and told they were to be shot. They stood for _an hour before. levelled rifles. A fortnight . previously they had been told the execution had been postponed. _ The same announcement was made daily. It was small wonder that many were driven insane.—"Times" snd Sydney "Sun" Services.

GERMANY WITHIN . MILi'TARY RESERVES SHOULD NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED. . , London, February 17. A neutral observer states that Germany is more closely united and less ■>; disturbed than :'n Angust.' It was a . ! great mistake to under-estimate her military reserves. He failed to find anyone who had actually seen tho 42centimetres (16i-inch) mortars: The. ! photographs published were actually of the Austrian 30.5 cm. (12-inch) mortars—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Ser- ' vices.