FIENDS AT WAR.
BLACK WORK SN GALICIA. SHOCKING CASE OF GERMAN INHUMANITY. RUSSIAN WOUNDED BURNED ALIVE. (Received July 7, 11.30 p.rn.) PETROGRAD, July 7. The “Novoe Vremya” has carefully investigated cases of the Germans in Galicia burning alive Russian wounded. together vs/i(h doctors. The wounded were infectious cases from the Carpathians who had been left at the Jesuit College at Chyrow. When the Cermans came up they removed the infected cases to an isolated wooden barracks, with the Russian doctors attending them and shut the windows and the door and poured paraffin over the building and burned hundreds alive. The Cermans do not deny the fact. Cerman aeroplanes dropped proclamations pointing out that they were forced to resort to cruelty so as not to carry the infection into their army and to teach the Russians not to leave sick and wounded behind, thus burdening the Cerman medical staff. The proclamation concludes with the hope that the Russians will (earn the lessen.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3976, 8 July 1915, Page 5
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