FIENDISH BRUTALITY
, RUSSIAN WOUNDED CRUELLY BUTCHERED GHOULISH INCIDENTS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Petrograd, August 9. Ail Austrian prisoner describes tho terrible German brutality towards prisoners at Jaroslav. He says: "I saw Germans ignite a barn in which there were nine Russians. When they attempted to escape they were beaten back with olubs, to the accompaniment of German laughter. "While crossing the San the troops blocked tho small pontoon bridges. A large party of Russian prisoners arrived/ and the German commander said; " 'Throw the Russian devils into the river.' Tho order was carried out. "Many hundreds were bayoneted: before my eyes. I saw a company of Austrian IJhlans, under a .German officer, practising sword, work on dead and wounded Russians stuck ,in a swamp." SACKING AND LOOTINC. KAISER'S SON TAKES A HAND. Petrograd, August 9. An eye-witness has given sworn 'evidence of Prince Joachim's presence at the sacking of a.big estate in theVSu> tvalki government. : His share of the loot inoluded a troika team, .' The witness's father. was, killed at Kalis?,,this sister tortured until she sue- '.. ournbed, and another abducted.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2537, 11 August 1915, Page 5
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178FIENDISH BRUTALITY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2537, 11 August 1915, Page 5
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