LAUGHED AT DYING MEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1918, Page 6

LAUGHED AT DYING MEN.

CALLOUS GERM.'\ T JAILERS. A pathetic document has come into the hands of Mrs C. Bennett, Dysart Terrace, Newtown, North Wales, in the shape of a few leaves of the diary of her husband, Sergeant Charles Bennett, who died in an internment camp in Germany some two months ago. He was captured in the retreat from Mons. Sergeant Bennett wrote:— "Dear Pals, —I am trying to write a few lines—the last I am afraid I shall write in this life. It is hard to lie here waiting for the end, when a little effort on the part of these people could save me. I asked them, a fortnight ago to send me away, but they only laughed at me. It is simply lingering on. "I am the only Englishman here among the lot. That makes it so much harder. I can only get myself washed when I pay a Russian to do it. I have not seen an interpreter since I have been here.

"If this should drop into your hands, I should like you to let ray father (Mr John Bennett, Public Hail, Newtown) or my wife know how I have been treated as an honourable prisoner of war. "I am not in any pain, boya. What I feel is being here all on my own, cared for no more than a beast. My last thoughts are of my dear wife and little boy."