HORRIBLE TORTURE OF PRISONERS
HOW THE HUNS TREATED BRITISH PRISONERS. London, January 17. Prisonors who have escaped from German camps have reachccl England. They relate horrible stories of the punishment inflicted upon Englishmen for refusing to work iu tho mines. The offender is stripped naked and thrown into a cell heated with hot air and with double-boarded walls and roof. Tho heat is suffocating, the only ventilation being a hole the size of a crown-piece. The man sweats and gasps for a time, and is then, taken, naked, and made to stand outside in any weather. The extremes of climate are a real torture. If the spirit of tho man is still unbroken, he is knocked unconscious by a blow oil the head with the. butt-end of a rifle, and is then taken to the mine, and not allowed to come to the surface until he agrees to work— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 99, 19 January 1918, Page 7
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152HORRIBLE TORTURE OF PRISONERS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 99, 19 January 1918, Page 7
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