SHOCKING STORY OF HUN BRUTALITY
ENGLISH LADYN DREADFUL ILL-
• TREATMENT. . (Rec. December it. 5.5 p.m.)
London, December 27. Miss Agnes Short, an English governess, who became a member of the Belgian Red Cross in August, 1914. has arrived at Liverpool, clad in a nightdress, skirt, clogs, and soldier's blanket. At a German court-martial in 1016 she was sentenced to, two years' imprisonment. The Germans alleged that she assisted Belgian youths to escape to Holland. Miss Short was shockingly'treated in prison. Sha was fed on coffee made of dried chestnuts and mouldy, black bread soaked, ■unfit for pigs. Instead of a bath she was foose-piped publicly each week, in spite of hor objections on the score of decency. The combings from her hair had to saved and were used for majcinf!' war material. When there was an insufficient supply each Monday the matron of the prison tore a handful from tho hend of Miss Short and other prisoners. Miss Short Raw an English prisonm , being inoculated, When the German doctor saw the Union .Tack tattooed on the arm he elashed at it savagely with his lancet,-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 80, 30 December 1918, Page 5
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187SHOCKING STORY OF HUN BRUTALITY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 80, 30 December 1918, Page 5
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