WHIPPED BY WOMEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1606, 5 September 1916, Page 4

WHIPPED BY WOMEN.

FIENDISH GERMAN CRUELTY.

A (Jordon Highlander, wounded at Mons, ami taken prisoner, made an effective speech at nn “Intern them All” demonstration in Hyde Park “If yon knew what our men have suffered in Germany,” he declared, “yon wouldn’s allow another German to remain in this countrv.”

It was for the “English swine,” said, the Highlander, that the Germans reserved their special cruelties. Taken to an internment camp in Germany, the prisoners were herded—soo together—in a tent, erected on ploughed land, which the soldier likened to the Black Hole of Calcutta. If anyone came out during the night he was shot down. A first one loaf was allotted to five men, but this allowance was afterwards reduced.

“Eighty-one of ns were In ken to another place to work. When we got out at (he station the German women, who stood at the side of the road, let the Freneh and Belgian prisoners pass, hut slashed long whips into the eyes of the English prisoners. A Seaforth Highlander had one eye taken out of his face.” Typhus broke out, and 1(1 prisoners out of 81 died. The suffering nfen were so negleeled, said the Highlander, that he and some of his eohirades collected pieces of wood and paper and made a Are with the object of supplying dying soldiers with hot water. It a British prisoner fell down he was kicked until he got up.