ATROCITIES AGAINST PRISONERS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2990, 30 January 1917, Page 5

ATROCITIES AGAINST PRISONERS

GERMAN BRUTALITY EXPOSED

"KULTUR" IN POLAND

Petrograd, January 28. The committee of inquiry into thd German atrocities against prisoners has published a statement by a private o£ the Dublin Fusiliers,, who saw at Mannheim a group' of Russian prisoners surrounded by an escort m marching order. Tho captain proposed that the prisoners should -work on tie French front. They declined, whereupon the escort heat them .with: rifle butts, and stabbed! them with bayonets, aid tha officer beat them on .the head with theflat of hiii sword, and then used tha point. _ The wounded prisoaers were thrust into a. train and removed. Tha British prisoners protested loudly, and were locked in the 'barracks.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. SLAVEDOM IN POLAND. Now York, January 28. \ The "New York Times" has received' an authentic story of German, rule in Poland. The conquerors looted Vilna, where the death-rate- las increased by four times._ Food: "was "seized" and resold to the inhabitants, and stores were sacked and the contents taken to Berlin. There is an increasing search for money. > Commercial life lias been suppressed, and forced' labour for semimilitary purposes is universal. Tha forced workers include, men. of 70. Many workers ha.vo been deported to Germany. Food is so scarce that the Germans have a factory at Vilna for treating horseflesh.—Aus.-N.Z.'- : Cable Assn. NEUTRAL COUNTRIES ASKED TO INTERVENE. Amaterdani, January 28. The Dutch .section of tho League of Neutral Countries has sent a message to all neutrals asking them to support the league's efforts to stop Germanv's shameful deportations—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.