HAPLESS POLES.
SHOCKING ILL-TREATMENT. PARIS.' May 31. A Polish official statement reveals the piteous condition of 700,000 Polish prisoners of Avar in German camps. The prisoners are too ill and fatigued for work and sometimes are sent back to Poland, many dying en route. Seventy per cent, in one trainload were too weak to stand up when they reached their destination, Avhile 211 of another trainload of 2000 died en route to WarsaAv from East Prussia. Four hundred of 800 prisoners marching from Lublin to LubartOAv perished. .. „ There is a fearful' mortality rate in the camps, Avhere the prisoners are ovenvorked, underfed, clad in rags and Aveakened by disease. The conditions vary in Russian-occupied Poland, but some camps are disease-rid-den.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 157, 3 June 1940, Page 8
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120HAPLESS POLES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 157, 3 June 1940, Page 8
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