INHUMAN TREATMENT.
OF BRITISH PRISONERS. Received Jan, 17, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 10. Private Wells, of the Suffolk Regiment, who has just returned to England, describes the horrors of the treatment of prisoners at Wittenberg. He 6ays: "They took my overcoat during freezing weather, and made me march in the snow barefooted. When I could not walk the doctors refused to treat me and left me to die. Three British doctors arrived and found I was suffering from gangrene. They operated, removing portions of both my feet. Floggings were frequent. When typhus broke out the German doctors bolted."
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1916, Page 5
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