FED ON REFUSE AND SUBSTITUTES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 16 November 1917, Page 1

FED ON REFUSE AND SUBSTITUTES.

A Russian official communique reports that arrangements have been made by the Russian Ret! Cross with Ait>tita-Huiigai-y tor the reciprocal alleviation of the conditions of prisoners of war, but that GeiifitfJv i-pfnses to accept auv proposals of tSfe'kimt. \Coreover (continues the statement), taking advantage with all rigor, of her com-" numerical superiority in prisoners. Germany is illegally detaining invalids who are totally unlit for militat v service, and does not'allow appeals ana.ilby Russian prisoners of war to their ov authorities or to the Society of the 1? i Cross to reach their destination, and, a- :i consequence, evidence of the condition of our prisoners of war in Germany ip. be

wrnuug more anu more disturbing and ouunous, and only reaches us with th. greatest difficulty., and only iragmentarv evidence counts through. Having reduced the food ration of our prisoners, of war ul incredibly small proportions, feeding them health subjecting their victims to stern discipline, and-fomne them to labor beyond their strength, Germany has not even given our sufferers a chance of appealing for help to their own country Germaiiv lias built up in front of our prisoners an impenetrable wall from behind which' onfy at rare intervals, there comes to us "-• suppressed groan of a dying man. The i ; terror of su & %, condition «-npeU the Central Committee for-prison- ™£- T ? ake ' in the ~ame ol h j«" nifcv, lts most energetic protest against K U *K f ,ehn f d !' a,bai % as perpe :«.ted by the country bearing the name oi