Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1917. "DROVES OF HUMAN CATTLE."
THE Echo de Paris, in a recent issue, published a letter from a native of Alsaee, who was for some time a German prisoner in .France. After saying that the speech delivered by the Prussian Minister for War, General von Stein, alleging that German prisoners of war were ill-treated, was only a pretext for the ill-treatment of British and French prisoners, the journal’s informant (motes a letter from a German officer, Lieutenant Jacobi, son of the Registrar at Mulhouse, to his father, in which lie wrote: —“I have been entrusted with a task of which every good German should he proud. My work consists of going to and fro between France and Germany in charge of droves of human cattle. Eight days ago we left France with 400 British and some hundred French. On arriving at Frank full we discovered (hat wo had lost on the journey many British and a number of Bed Breeches.”- The Alsatian subsequently asked Jacobi’s father what could have become of the missing prisoners, and received the reply: “They were butchered on the way.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1728, 21 June 1917, Page 2
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189Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1917. "DROVES OF HUMAN CATTLE." Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1728, 21 June 1917, Page 2
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