The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-06-03
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TABLE,, RUSSIAN ACT
In Other Instances Russian Soldiers Cut All the
Flesh From Victim S Arms.--Women of Every
Age, From 8 to 70, Outraged by Russian
Soldiers Repeatedly.--Germany
Makes Protest.

stanucc d man and his wife were nail
ed by the tongue to a table, in which
position they persisted of hunger and
loss oil blood.
"lnnumerable are the cases OF
bestial attacks upon ONE and girls.
Very often these pitible victims were
violated by several soldiers in sue
cession, who in cases infected them
| with venereal diseases, women in
advanced stages of pregnancy We're
also abused by the bestial soldiers,
even women over 20 years of age
years old, was violated by two Rus
sian soldiers in succession. Officers
also gave themselves up to such mis-
deeds.
"Other supplements disclose the
atrocities perpetrated on German
prisoners-of-war by Russion troops.
taken prisoner were robbed. spat up
on or otherwise m%istreated. A Rus
sian officer threatened German sold
iers, who refused to betray their
comrades with death, and actually
ordered one of them shot. Russian
troops placed German prisoners in
marrow pits before their artillery
positions with the evident intention
of allowing them to be killed by
German fire. Cossacks in riding past
IGerman prisoners-of-war. cut off their
heads, or wounded them, or-by
ic%hopping off their limbs,-mutilated
them. A German prisoner was cruel
ny bound to a sort of treadmill and
left to starve. Three hussars were
found hanged in a barn with their
heads down and their noses II ears
chopped off. so that they must have
died in a frightful agony.
Neither did the Russian hordes
hesitate at the mutilation and MUIR
der of wounded German soldiers.
Thus they tore the bandages off the
wounded so that they would bleed to
death; pierced out their eyes, cut off
their tongues, ears fingers and feet
of others, or smashed in their skulls.
In many instances the atrocities took
on the very character of fiendish tor
ture. Thus a prisoner, slightly
wounded, who was pinned to the
wooden floor of a verandah by a
sword, which went through his
mouth, had the flesh stripped off his
entire forearms from the elbows
down. while his fingers were cloven
TO the wrists; another. who had a
fracture of the skull, was bound to
a calf in a stable in such a way that
the animal would have to touch the
uncovered brain with its mouth at
every least movement.
The most terrible thing. of all.
though, is an order from the Rus
Sian General Staff, found on a Rus
sian officer of high rank which
commanded that all the male inhabi-
tants able to work from boys of ten
years upward be driven before the
storming columns; this atrocious or
der, whereby the Russian command
er-%in-chief has placed his name on
the pillory for all time, was evident
~ made with the intention that the
German soldiers, in order to meet the
attack OF the Russians, should have
to shoot down their own compatriots.
The Imperial Government believes
it should stigmatize before all the
world this barbarous behaviour of
the Russian troops. defying as it does
every law of warfare and humanity.
and it hereby most vigorously and
solemnly issues protest against thes'
atrocities. which are indeed the dis
in grace OF the Goth century"