Second Edition. Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 10 April 1916, Page 6

Second Edition. Germany

ICERMANYS INHUMANITY. IFTY FRES|Hy CASES, DAILY, FREQUENT LIMBS. lALD CROW'D AT A CEMETERY. UTE OF A SUPERINTENDENT. [Unitkd Pbess Association.! London, April 9. he report continues ,: were, a isand cnav&Ntiaßlfrf; with fifty h cases occurring daily. There was •erne difficulty in getting drugs and tsings, and supplied .they a hopelessly"" inadequate. The i lost their toes and feet from j tvphus and gangrene, while many their.legs amputated for the same ie. One British soldier, who is now England, lost both leg*;* Thewwas ■tically no hospital clothing. There one small disinfector. and the men to wear their outer garments while inner were disinfected,-, .or v ice a, because the blankets were meient to keep them warm. UasliOf the patients was out of the ition when soap e from England. The dead were ed within the camp cemetery. ? h was so small that the coffins \ piled up. trial of all to hear the townspeople outside

eering -and insulting the dead. CapJains Frv, Sutchliffe, and Field died of yphus, as also did ish prisoners who volunteered to nurse iheir comrades. Convalescents, who iad been discharged and were scarcely ible to.walk, were obliged to lie'on the bare floqr of the barracks. Out oi three hundred English sixty died. , a . ... . The report, records'the" magnificent efforts of the British doctors in successftlllv stamping out the epidemic, and it taentions that Dr. the German medical the first outbreak, only entered the camp once, and then he was completely protected including a mask and Since ' then he had bjßlFftW** an Iron cross for his services in combating the disease. On one occasion ho refused Dr. Fry's entmity saries. calling the Swine!" The committee tried to hnd justification for this treatojent, andean find none. But it was o%- in keeping with the camp's history from, the beginning. Savage dogs were clnpWyed■■■"to terrorise the prisoners, and flogging *ith a whip was frequent. It, was reponsible and directly chargeable \6 the cruelty and neglect of the German officials. ,

WITTEN3URC CAMP. ' "MASS OF MOVING VERMIN." (Received 1.55 p.m.)'" *■ i London, April 9. Some of the conditions described in the reprint are most abhorrent;,, Major Prieistley mentions that ho atfeniotettto brush the dust from a patient's clothes, and the .dust proved to be a moving mass'of vermin. ~;.< , 1 Other incidents were more appad-; ing. The report shows that Priestley and others set to work, and with admirable powers of organisation . evolved order out of chaos. They' collected the: British patients in one bungalow, jtyjd resolved to get the best food, clothing, and bedding obtainable for the sick, who gradually overcame the epidemic. warnletf'weather in April preatly facilitated their recovery, Germans began to assist. They erected a stenlfeer, but the work was, not. pressed forward, and was after the British case. They also built' a liospital bungalow, but the epidemic was over before it was completed.

REICHSTAG SCENES. LIEBNEGH'f 'CONTINUES HIS DENUNCIATION. (Received.lS.&^p.m.) 'iAnyterdaiw; £prit 9^ Further heated scenes bc.<;ui;red in the Reichstag. Heir LiebnVch't declared that lie held documents showing an agreement between Herr Zimmerman and Sir Roger, driUing British prisoners to light against England. '_._ _ ... Despite repeated calls to order and cries of "tractor" and "lunatic." Herr Liebneeht dimoiincqdi 'the official encouragement tpjjj sucft, ~a .treasonable propaganda, also a misleading. Government memorandum attempting to prove that British merchantmen were armed to attack German, submarines. Hei said the war' began with a cry against barbarism, stjts soon directed againstyji|&san,d. Eventually.t-the lefused to hear Liebnecht. ,;■■;. •• ■ < ;