MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1918, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

THE HUNS' BRUTALITY.

XO BRITISH PRISONERS. Received Oct. 10, 7.40 p.m. London, Oct. 15. Bir Chas. Y'ounger's committee's report, based on the testimony of upwards of seventy escapees, regarding German treatment of war prisoners taken during the spring offensive, says it is almost an--exact counterpart of the treatment of the earlier prisoner* The enemy totally failed, in some cases, for forty-eight hours to provide prisoners with any food. This may be explained by the number of prisoners exceeding expectations, but their sustenance thereafter was inrdequa;?. Prisoner* were aim forced to do unauthorised work near the battle front. Many compound » were without warmth, shelter or sanitation. Some guards were cruel, and a few doctors brutal. Prisoners at Tiller* were forced to live in the cpen for i fortnight, and rould rot dry their clothe* and could not wash. The report adds that the Red Cross was flown over ammunition dumos. Received Oct. 16, 10 p.m. * London, Oct. I.j. In one instance a prisoners' liut six hundred yards behind the line was Celled. and often hit. fourteen British prisoner* being killed A prisoner, named Kills, suffering from a bullet-wound in the Inns, i-ried in sr.d the doctor hit him on the jaw The ttmts died next day—Au* an AN Z Cable A« w . ami Reuter

THE ARBITERS OF AN j ARMISTICE. I SEAMEN DEMAND REPARATION FOR LEINSTER OUTRAGE. 1 I Received Oct. Hi. 10 p.m. London, Out. 15. ; It is nnder«tood that Marshal Foeh t «bS the British naval authorities have i a decisive voice in settling the terms, if an armistice becomes cxped'. at. A mass meeting of Liverpool seamen demanded full G n.su reparation for J tht Ltittater '■ •; . .*: rd the overthrow ,T of the Kais:- .;. militarism, it decided to extend the boycott of Germany j for u:i.i.her. year until this was secured ; —Aus Cable Assoc. j