The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-07-16

assaults by the soldiers. In the begin.
ming, they were herded together with the
young men and had to share their rooms
or stables with them. Modesty forbids
specification of all the acts OF indeceney
TO which we had TO submit; worst OF all
offenders was the Commissioner OF Pc,
lice Maternes, who numerically mai.
treated all those who opposed his i'm
moral designs"
The royal Hungarian ministry OF the
interior obtained on Jan. IL, 1915, re.
port of "the murder of informed Hun
garians at Argenton. sur. Cruise, Anglers,
Rastide-St. Pierre, La Courtine, GARRISON
and Orville."
In Great Britain, insufficient food and
accommodations, ID in claimed, We're &C.
corded the interned nationals at Devon.
port and Newbury.
Colonel Haines," presumably in
charge of the detention camps, says
letter from Baron Giskra to Count Berch-
told, would have been quite willing to do
something for the prisoners, but his hu.
manitarian impulses were checked by
Lord Kitchener"
Similar complaints are made of treat.
ment OF prisoners at Dorchester and the
Douglas concentration camp on the Isle
of Man.
In Russia, the intelligence department
of the Austro- Hungarian general staff
learned OF "barbarous treatment infiict-
ed on the interned at 0renburg, where
typhus and starvation depleted their
ranks by the hundred" In the Serbia /
besides rough treatment, plundering and
iay4y fnnI pa fytra lea
ton was enforced, prisoners of war were
robbed, badly fed, and forced to do work |
for military purposes"
Twenty cases OF violations by I
Russia of the laws Of warfare and Is
instances in which Serbia and Monte
negro are accused of various atrocities
are given in detailed affidavits selected 4
from many made by soldiers, officers and |,
civilian officials. These include, in Rus
STA, not only the use OF dum-dum bull
let's, firing on the Red Cross flag and
ambulances, but organized footing and
killing of civilians and numerous au
cases of rape"
Cases are recorded of looting and kill
ing 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, assassinations and robber-
es and wanton destruction, all supported
BY concrete instances were verified, it is
,laimed, after the Austrians reoccupied
he invaded territory where the alleged
violations had occurred.
In Serbia and Montenegro. the par.
icipation OF the civilian population in
he fighting, the misuse of the white !
lag, the use of cartridges filled with u
wire nails and pieces Of citriol of cop. Il
Ter, torture OF prisoners, the poisoning Il
4 wells with dead bodies and mud the Y
ring upon the army service corps by III
Tomen and children, mutilation of bodies r
nd maltreatment of prisoners Of war =
With insufficient food and accommoda. II
ion. complete the list of atrocities com II
lained of by the Austrian army. Tn !
er the head of Violations of the Laws II
Warfare" complaint is made that n
lussia refused to recognize Austrians =
escribed as the Polish and Roumauiau u
aqions as belligerents. The Russians II
re accused of hanging them wherever =
aey catch them"
"trhe Roumanian legions, not less than IN
he Polish legions," says the book, com h
" not only with all the requirements Y
The Hague convention in regard to Il
olunteer corps, but form a part of the "A
rmy ITSELF n
Charges are also made against the U
ussians OF "grieyous acts of terrorism" r
yainst Great Catholics in Bukowina. m