THE SERVIAN CAMPAIGN.
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TREATMENT OF SERBIANS
LONDON, June 24. Details have reached Salonika of tho treatment of Serbian prisoners by Austro-Hungary, Twenty-four thousand died of typhoid in two concentre-™ tion camps. The few thousand who re- 1 main are suffering from tuberculosis " tvnd other diseases. A large number are interned in a third camp at Chchark which, is a depot for labour battalions for the Italian front. There have been 20,000 deaths tliere during the laßt three months. Frigtlifuliy emaciated prisoners, clad in rags, may ho seen daily, fighUng lihe famished beasts at refuse heaps fot scraps and-banes. One hundred and • eight Serbians were frozen to death in a singlo hut. on March 18th and the dead and dying were thrown into huge graves . and covered with quicklime.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1917, Page 2
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132THE SERVIAN CAMPAIGN. Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1917, Page 2
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