DIABOLICAL CRUELTY
HOW SIX BRITISH SOLDIERS WERE TREATED. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. August 14, 9.20 p.m.) Paris, August 14. "Lc Journal" states: —"The liritisli, having to abandon a trench, six soldiers were accidentally left behind. Tho Germans kept .tlicm in the frontlino trenches a week without food and water, and several times a day made the prisoners sit on the parapet as a target for the bullets of tlieir own comrades. Three died on the fifth day. The British rceaptured the trench, but one of tho survivors has since succumbed."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2850, 15 August 1916, Page 5
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91DIABOLICAL CRUELTY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2850, 15 August 1916, Page 5
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