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With reference to the treatment OF
Austro-Hungarian nationals in France
the chief complaint was against the
hardships imposed upon innocent wo-
men and children in the concentration
camps. A depositionSof Miss NJ. E
Schreiner "a graduate nurse, pictures
conditions in a convent at GARRISON, to
which Austrians, Hungarians and Ger
mans were ordered after a march OF
20 kilometers. Here they were inform
ed that they were prisoners of war.
There were altogether about 1000
prisoners, declared Miss Schreiner
half of whom were women and child,
ren. There was no furniture available
and straw was the sole bedding. I'm
der the pretext of safety the existing
latrines were boarded up and holes
in the ground were dug by the male
prisoners in lieu of other arrange
ments. There were no provisions
made for washing. Insufficiency of
food and the weather conditions soon
brought about serious illnesses, such
as dysentery and in consequence of
the inadequate latrines, epidemics
broke out Two women were confined
and had to put up with the most afro
cious treatment Four people died"
Other cases cited included the ma
licious punishment, rough medical a.
tendance by Veterinary surgeon" and
the shameless molestation of informed
girls of French soldiers" at Ables
rOlonne.
"The young girls" according to
one of the dispositions, were exposed
to criminal assaults by the soldiers.
In the beginning, they were herded
together with young men and had to
share their rooms or stables with
them. Modesty forbids specification Of
all the acts of indecency to which we
had to submit; worst of all offenders
was the commission of police Maternes,
who numerically maltreated all those
who opposed his immoral designs"
The Royal Hungarian ministry of
the interior obtained on January IL,
1915, report of "the murder of in
termed Hungarians at Argenton-sur-
Cruise, Anglers, Bastide-St. Pierre, La
Courtine, GARRISON and Orville.
In Great Britain, insufficient food
and accommodations, it is claimed,
were accorded the interned nationals
at Davenport and Newbury.
In Russia, the intelligence depart
ment of the Austro-Hungarian general
staff learned of 'barbarous treatment
inflicted on the interned at Arenburg,
where typhus and starvation depleted
their ranks by the hundreds" In Ser
bia, besides rough treatment, plumb
ering and insufficient food, compul-
sorry naturalization was enforced, pris-
oners of war were robbed, badly fed
and forced to do work for military
purposes"
Twenty-seven cases of violation by
Russia of the laws of warfare, and
eighteen instances in which Serbia and
Montenegro are accused of various
atrocities are given in detailed affidav-
its selected from many more made by
soldiers, officers and civilian officials.
These include in Russia, not only the
use of dum-dum bullets, firing on the
Red Cross flag and ambulances, but
organized looting and killing of civil
ians and numerous authenticated cases
of rape"
Cases are recorded of looting and
killing directed especially against
Jewish civilians who also were forced
under the lash to work in the trenches
during their holidays" Atrocities
committed by the Cossacks, assassi-
nations and robberies and wanton de-
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