CRUEL TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 2 January 1917, Page 5

CRUEL TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA London, December 31. A number of British -who were taken prisoner in German East Africa have arrived in London. They describe , their terrible privations, and the German policy of systematically degrading _ the British in the:eyes of the natives. Military officers, planters, • scientists, and their wives were \ised as slaves, with the result that British prestige was destroyed. . ./•-.' The Rev. Mr. Stanton, Principal of St. Andrew's College, Zanzibar, states that -whites were placed under natives; and treated as .low-class blacks. They were scantily olad, and compelled to dray lorries in the streets in view of jeering natives, and do other degrading work. English -women were herded up under a notoriously immoral German commandant, whose wife committed suicide owing to the atrocities. —Aus.N.Z. CaWo Assn. , x STORIES OF SERB PRISONERS. (Bee. January 1, 7.50 p.m.} London, December 31. Reuter's Corfu correspondent states that escaped Serbian prisoners from Germany and Austria tell of their shameful treatment. Not only were they put to tho hardest tasks and insufficiently fed and clad, but the; Austrian were also employing them as combatants against the Russians. Many .of these escaped by surrendering.—Reuter.' .