CRUELTIES TO WAR PRISONERS
MORE HUN BARBARITIES. Now York, August 25. The New York "World's "• correspondent at Washington says the Allied diplomats have issued a statement regarding the cruelties inflicted on Allied prisoners in Germany. In one instance a British soldier, who was wounded in the foot, remonstrated with the guard lor being forced to do fatigue duty. Ho was shot dead when he pushed the guard's riflo away, as the guard was about to strike him with the weapon. A Scotch soldier was shot down because he walked slowly owing to a wounded foot. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CRUCIFIED BY THE GERMANS. (Reo. August 27, 5.5 p.m.) Now York, August 35. Doctor P. 11. Howard, a Salvation Army worker from the West front, declnred_ that Sergeant A. B. Cole, of the American Army, was orucified by the Germans. He was found by his brother, dead, fastened to the wall of an outbuilding by bayonets, which had been stuck through his feet and hands. -Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 291, 28 August 1918, Page 5
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166CRUELTIES TO WAR PRISONERS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 291, 28 August 1918, Page 5
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