CASSEL CAMP HORRORS
A PRISONER'S STATEMENT
By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright
London, April 16. A British prisoner at the Cassel Camp, in a letter describing the conditions there, mid in recalling those at ."Wittenberg Camp, says it was ,overcrowded. None of the prisoners were able to wash. For five months the sanitary arrangements were horrible. Typhus broke out among the Russian prisoners, and the authorities deliberately mixed up the Russians with the British in order to infect the latter. There were many deaths daily, and only tho efforts of two English doctors prevented the diseaso wiping out the camp.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2749, 18 April 1916, Page 5
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97CASSEL CAMP HORRORS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2749, 18 April 1916, Page 5
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