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Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1918, Page 5

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HUN TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. INCREDIBLE BARBARITY. DETAILS TOO REVOLTING FOR PUBLICATION'. Received May 22, 7.30 p.m. Lodnon, May 21. The Times gives prominence to further authenticated atrocities, systematic tortures, and cold-Wooded murders of British prisoners in Germany, of which the sum total of evidence is incredibly inhuman. The article instances that a number of seriously wounded were brutally forced to work long hours. One, on holding up his hand to prove his unfitness to work, was shot dead and his body thrown into a dirty washhouso. At Sehnoidcmuhl the British wero without huts. They scooped out and lived in huts in the ground. One, for not obeying an order which he failed to understand., was stripped to the waist, tied to a barrel, arjjl savagely beaten by an eflicer, who struck him with his sword, spat on him, and called him an "English swine-" The man died as the result of this treatment. At Langenhalla, 300 wounded were herded in a large hut without bedding. Five died during tho night Th» remainder were left in tho broiling sun for tjiree hours. Seven ntor« died. Subsequently, through calculated neglect and ill-treatment, fifty more suerumbed. Details of the conditions in this camp are too revolting for publication.—Rcutcr. . AFTER-CARE OF SOLDIERS. EXHIBITION OF WORK. London, May "". Australia and New Zealand are wall represented at the Exhibition for the After-care of Soldiers. Their Majesties were especially interested in the exhibits at the AnzaeV stall, and complimented the disabled men on thpir work.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc

BANK AMALGAMATIONS. LEGISLATION RECOMMENDED Roceired May 22. 5-5 pm. London, May %l. The Treasury Committee reports that possible dangers from further large bank amalgamation? outweigh tho arguments against Government interference, and that some measure of Government coetrol i» essential Tr» Committee recommend legislation requiring the Government's approval b« obtained prior to any amalgamation or for the pu?zhase of another 'bank's sbarcs. —Press Assoc.

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