PRISONERS IN AUSTRIA
INHUMAN TREATMENT EXPOSED Rome, July 22. Italian prisoners to the number of 520 who have returned from the Austrian concentration camp at ■ Monlhausen arc all suffering from tuberculosis, the result of malnutrition. The soldiers' stories reveal systematic ill-treatment.—Aue.-N'.Z. Cable Assn. 300 CZECHS SHOT. Berne, July 21. The hangman having failed to arrive, three hundred 'Czechs, formerly in the Austrian Army, who were taken prisoner on the Piave, while fighting for Italy, were summarily shot. All went to their death calmly and gladly. In their last letters home they , wrote that they gloried in such a death.—"The Times." A BBTJTAL ACT. Berne, July 22. At the reassembling of the- Austrian Parliament two Socialist Deputies revealed the fact that while a crowd of women nnd children ot Pilsen enrrounued a consignment of bread destined for Skobn, a Equad pf soldiers fired, killing five children and wounding men, women, and children, some fatally. The Deputies demanded the punishment of those responsible. The rovelation caused a sensation amongst the public—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 262, 24 July 1918, Page 5
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171PRISONERS IN AUSTRIA Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 262, 24 July 1918, Page 5
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