THE WAY OF THE HUN.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1917, Page 7

THE WAY OF THE HUN.

NURSE'S "HORRIBLE PICTURE." Extraordinary disclosures of German harshness and. brutality are made by a Russian Red Cross nurse, who has ju;t returned from imprisonment in Germany, says a Petrograd message to the Central News. The nurse was one of several captured near Lake Norotch in April last and taken to the German headquarters. Afterwards they were shown the Russian wounded. "It was a horrible picture," the nurse states. "lii a wooden shed on the bare ground, .which was covered only with sawdust, there were regular rows of our wounded, and amongst them were several men wlflj had died from their injuries. We told the German doctor that it was impossible for us to work sunongst this dirty saw : dust, but he shrugged liis shoulders impatiently and remarked: 'Soldiers do no need antiseptics; besides, we are at war.' Towards evening we obtained permission to bandage the wounded in a tent which had been set apart for German wounded. iUNBANDAGED FOR FOUR DAYS. 'ln one of the field hospitals our wounded were lying and dying without assistance. Some of them had been unbandaned for four days, and even simple wounds resulted in gangrene and death. Complicated fractures of the legs and feet were treated by tying two sticks over the wounded men's boots. In this manner those who remained alive were taken to Vilna or Ivovno. "Subsequently we were taken to a concentration camp in Germany. "Here there was hospital for 2000 mew. Outwardly there was great cleanliness and order, bujt inside there was a chaotic conditio!? of, affairs. The bandaging material supplied to us was terribly dirty. After a time my sistc-r and I were accused of conducting an anti-German agitation, and we . jverc transferred to a camp for civilian j(ris«ners, our Red Cross badges being torn from our dresses. "Here both food and accommodation "'ere dreadful. We had a wooden bed with a dirty bag filled with sawdust and a thin counterpane, but no linen. My sister was seized with erysipelas owing to the filthy surroundings. "When, tired of idleness, we asked to ■be allowed to work in the camp hospital for Russian wounded, the commandant 'adopting a Napoleonic attitude, crossed his arms over his chest, stared at us troin head to foot, and remarked, 'Ah, I understand; you wish to go to men,' In face of this insulting remark, there was nothing for us but to leave the room."