LEST WE FORGET.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1918, Page 8

LEST WE FORGET.

FURTHER REVELATIONS OF HUN BRUTALITIES. The Daily Mail correspondent at The Hague said on September 13: Some British prisoners for England came from the camp at Krossen (not far from Leipzig), to which was brought a few days previously about'l4o British and 111 Americans who had been forced since May to work belliind the German lines in circumstances beyond description. Some were suffering from dropsical conditions following on untended flesh wounds; nevertheless they had been forced to carry heavy Tails and sleepers or push trucks. When they dropped through sheer exhaustion they were spurred on with •bayonet pricks. A man of the Royal Scots was hit over the head with a rifle-butt and died during the night. Five or six died immediately after arrival at Krcssen, and an American suffering dropsy and scarcely able to walk was carried off from Krossen to serve as an interpreter. One of my informants said: "When the men arrived at Krossen their legs were either thin as drumsticks or swollen to twice their normal size." Facts regarding the treatment of Russians also require notice. At So'tau, Russians are dying off like flies. They are treated with the most inhuman brutality and arc. starving. Recently a Russian, who was too weak to work "and protested, had his i head beaten in like an egg-shell.