SHOCKING CRUELTIES.
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Feteourad, Fab 18 The Rnasiao Commission inquiry into German atrocities, reports shocking cruelties. Unarmed woundeds were murdered in cold blood and war prisoners were burned alive.
Sisters of Mercy were violated. Explosive bullets were enormously used, quantities being discovered. The sufferings of woundeds were horrible, the enemy pouring corrosive fluids over them. It dentines that German Red Cross bearers twice shot with a revolver woundeds who asked for bandageaWith a view to extracting informu-
tion a Cossack was connected with an i elect'ic needle to his wounded leg for r half an hour, but he heroically persisted in silence. This was repeated i on two following days. Then red ! - hot irons were app'ied to his feet. The Cossack eventually escaped.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1917, Page 3
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124SHOCKING CRUELTIES. Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1917, Page 3
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