BRITISH PRISONERS STILL IN FIRE ZONE
GERMAN STATEMENT CONTRADICTED. Paris, Jrnio 2-t The "Petit Journal" contradicts a German statement that prisoners are 110 longer employed in the firing zone. The "Journal" states that a British prisoner, who has just escaped, was kept for five days in a German support trench and was compelled to oarry trench mortar shells over open ground, exposed to British gunfire.—Aus.-N.7,. Cable Assn. [It was recently stated officially by Germany that the withdrawal of war prisoners from tho fire zone, contemporaneously with withdrawals by tho Allies, had been completed according tc agreement]
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3120, 26 June 1917, Page 5
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96BRITISH PRISONERS STILL IN FIRE ZONE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3120, 26 June 1917, Page 5
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