Russia.
j AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES. I RUSSIAN PRISONERS' FRIGHTFUL | DEATH. UNITED PlJhwy ASSOCIATION. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Petrograd, .January 30. The Headquarters Staff has issued evidence that six Russian prisoners have escaped from Austria after witnessing the execution of four comrades' for refusing to work oir defences. Five] hundred prisoners participated in the refusal, and four were selected for execution, and Austrian cadets carried out the sentence. An Austrian deserter confirms the statement and adds that his regiment was sent to Breenerhad to force the prisoners to work, and when they persisted in refusing twenty were tied to trees in a brutal manner. Some implored the torturers to shoot them, and after two hours all were unconscious from syncope. A non-com. was literally crucified. Of the remaining prisoners who still refused to work live were ordered to be shot in the presence of their comrades. So many cadets volunteered for the execution that each victim was shot by a separatel, batch..;;'' '■ < .' 'I
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 47, 31 January 1916, Page 6
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160Russia. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 47, 31 January 1916, Page 6
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