Prisoners in Battle Zone.
BRITISHERS CASUALTIED BY ALLIED GUNFIRE'. STORIES OF HUN CALLOyS.VKSS. Received this day, 9.50 am.. ■London, December !>. Australians arriving at Ripon from Germany state that prior to their removal in June Allied long-range shellfire caused eleven casualties including seven deaths among a working party of Ijritislh prisoners, of which four Australians were wounded. Signaller Dawkins, of the Fifty-Sixth Battalion, relates that between November, 1916, and March, 1917, British prisoners) including four Australia 11s, were kept at Quean t for six weeks without a wasli or a change of clothes. The daily ration was a quarter of a loaf and a litre of soup made from horse flesh and turnips. When removed to Eeoxirt -in March only 80 were left. A number died and the rest were taken to Germany sick and inoapacitatedi.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 December 1918, Page 3
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