SHOCKING ATROCITIES IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA
OFFICIAL BEVELATIONS. (Rec. September 25, 9.25 p.m.) London, September 25. A White Paper which hns been issued gives shocking details of the treatment of British prisoners and natives in German East Africa. Sworn depositions prove that the civilians, including. missionaries and ladies, were compelled to carry out disgusting tasks in order to humiliate, them in the eyes of the natives and undermine British prestige. Several of tho missionaries were confined in vermininfected cells for the most trivinl offences, while the women were treated with scandalous indecency in the presence of tho native guards. Natives vere continually beaten with hippopotamus hide whips. A victim would be laid in the centre of the prison camp, five natives holding his limbs and. head, while a sergeant applied twenty-five lashes. After a parade at Boma, sometimes as many as a quarter of tho native soldiere, many of whom hud been pressed into service, were itaed for. mistakes at drill.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 1, 26 September 1917, Page 5
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163SHOCKING ATROCITIES IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 1, 26 September 1917, Page 5
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