GERMAN BRUTALITY.
AUSTRIAN SOLDdKiTR DISGUST. j I’KTROCIUA'D, f!. ! An Austrian prisoner <!«■ n-i iij:*:- ! ' . terribio German brutality to prisoners. . At J'urosiav lie saw the Germans 1 '-r nite a barn, wherein t-uore wore nut*; Russians. When they attempted to (}s.c‘ i|r‘ they were beai.en '■ .1 it cfelis to the accompaniment. of ( -.<?r- . man laughter. . While crossing me san tin; troop- . block'll the smaii pontoon brio go?. ■ large party of Russian prisoner:, nr- j rived and the German commander ; said- “Throw the Russian cionls into « the- river. 1 " The order was carried ; out-. , i, , ; “Many Lund reds were baj-oricUmi before my eyes/' said the Austrian. : “I saw a company of Austrian Uy/ under a German officer practising: sword work on dead and wounded Rusbians stuck in a swamp.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 5
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126GERMAN BRUTALITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 5
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