SAVAGE AND DEVILISH CRUELTY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 209, 23 May 1918, Page 5

SAVAGE AND DEVILISH CRUELTY

HOW THEY TREAT OUR WOUNDED IN GERMANY A HORRIFYING REPORT (Rec. May 22, 7.30 p.m.) London, May 21. ' "Tho Times" gives prominence to fur- i ther authenticated atrocities, systematic tortures, and cold-blooded murders of British prisoners in Germany, tho 6um total evidence of which is incredibly inhuman. The ariiclo instances a case in, which a number' of seriously-wounded prisoners were brutally forced to work for long hours. Ono of them, on holding up his hand to prove his unfitness to work, was shot dead, and his body thrown into a dirty washhouse..

At Schueide'muhl the' British were without huts, and they eeoopedand lived in'holes'in the ground. One of them for not obeying an order which ho had failed to understand was stripped to the waist, tied to a barrel, and savagely beaten. An officer struck him with a sword, spat on him, and called him'"an English swine." The man died as the result of this treatment.

At Langenhalza three hundred wounded wero herded in a large hut without bedding. Five died during the night, and the remainder were left in the broiling sun for three hours. Seven more then died, and subsequently, through calculated neglect and ill-treatment,' fifty nioro succumbed. The details of the conditions which exist in this camp aro too revolting for publication.—Reuter.