A BRUTAL OFFICER.
(REVOLTING CRTJELTY TO KUT PRISONERS. B* Telegraph,—Press Aran.- Copyright. „ -;.. London, Julv 15 Revolting cruelty and treachery was revealed at the court-martial of Pratel, an Eurasian warrant officer, who was *v!SF w i tl? BToss iaannumitv and neglect .to the Kut prisoners at Bagtsche hospital. '
It is alleged that Fratel kicked a Wying man. while the dead were flung vy week orderlies into the mortuary mostly naked, and afterwards buried in Shallow grave B , whence the iackals dug 2? a P and gnawed their bodies. '&«.T \ suggested that Erapel, believing the British defeated, Wjight to ingratiate himself with the P>u*kj/~Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1919, Page 5
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104A BRUTAL OFFICER. Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1919, Page 5
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