GERMAN TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.
THE REFINEMENT OP CRUELTY,
Received 8.50,
LONDON, Jan 17
Prisoners who have escaped from German camps and have reached England, narrate horrible punishments meted out to English for refusing to work in mines. The offender, stripped naked, is thrown into a cell heated with hot air, the walls and roof being double-boarded. The heat is suffocat-
ing, the only ventilation being a hole
j the size of a crown piece. The man sweats and gasps for a time, and is then taken out naked and made to stand outside in any weather, and the extremes of hot and cold are a real torture. If the spirits of the men are still unbroken he is knocked unconscious by a blow on the head with the butt of a rifle. He is then taken to the mine and not allowed to come to the surface until he agrees to work.
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Taihape Daily Times, 18 January 1918, Page 5
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