ESCAPEES FROM GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 281, 16 August 1918, Page 5

ESCAPEES FROM GERMANY

WHAT TWO BRITISH PRISONERS HAD TO TELL. Washington, August 14. On the Veslo front two hunger-stricken British escaped prisoners arrived in the American lines aftor passing through the German barrage. They were captured in the Marne fighting. Thoy spent 6even days and nights after escaping from a German prison camp. They declared that the 1 British prisoners wero beaten and starved, and that the German' soldiers were living on horso meat. "GOTT STRAFE AMERICA." New York, August Id. The New York "Herald's" correspondent on the West front interviewed two escaped British prisoners who reached the American lines. They said that 4000 British prisoners and 1000 Russians were forced by the Germans to build a railway system south of the Aisne, below tho Veslo. They said tho Germans had changed the signs hung everywhere from "Gott Strafe England to "Gott Strafe America." The Germans are using paper bandages in tho hospitals. _ English and French airmen are creating panic and the greatest hnvoo in the Rhine country. American wounded prisoners were being inhumanly treated. The prisoners' daily rations wero: Breakfast, a pint of coffee made from hawthorn berries; luncheon, vegetable soup, made of dried vegetables; supper, a pint of coffoe and three-quarters of a pound of black broad; on which diet they were forced to work from daylight to dark.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.