Evening star., 1915-07-16

en- and children in the concentration
camps deposition Of Miss NJ. e.
Schreiner. graduate nurse, pictures
conditions in a convent at Garrison to
which Austrians. Hungarians and Ger.
mans were ordered after a march OF
twenty kilometers. Here they were
informed that they were prisoners OF
war.
''There were altogether about 1000
prisoners declared Miss Schreiner.
half of whom were women and chill
dren. There was no furniture avail
able and straw was the sole bedding.
listing latrines were boarded up and
holes in the ground were dug by the
male prisoners in lieu of other ar
rangements. There were no provl-
of food and the weather conditions
soon brought about serious illnesses,
such as dysentery, and in consequence
of the Inadequate latrines. eptdemlcs
and had to put up with the most
atrocious treatment Four people
died"
Other cases cited included the ma
licious punishment rough medical az
tendance by a veterinary surgeon" ana
the shameless molestation OF interned
girls by French soldiers at Sables
dOlonne.
Frightful Treatment Of Girls.
THE young GIRLS" according to one
Of the depositions. were exposed to
criminal assaults by the soldiers. In
the beginning they were herded to-
gether with the young men and had to
share their rooms or stables with
them. Modesty forbids specification OF
all the acts of indecency to which we
was the commissioner Of police. Mat.
ernes, who numerically maltreated all
those who opposed his immoral de-
signs"
interior obtained January II, 1915.
report of "the murder Of interned Hun
garians at Argenton-sur-Cru Angers'
Bastide-st. Pierre. La Courtine' Gar
aison and Orville."
In Great Britain insufficient food ana
accommodations, 1t is claimed. were ac-
corded the interned nationals at Dew
onport and Newbury.
''Col. Haines presumably in charge
of the detention camps), says let
ter from Baron Giskra to Count Berch-
told, would have been quite willing
to do something for the prisoners, but
his humanitarian 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.
Barbarous Treatment Of Interned.
In Russia, the intelligence depart
ment of the Austro- Hungarian general
staff learned Of "barbarous treatment
inflicted on the interned at Orenburg,
where typhus and starvation depleted
their ranks by the hundreds" In
Serbia, besides rough treatment. plum
dering 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 violations by
Russia Of the laws of warfare and
eighteen instances in which Serbia and
Montenegro are accused of various
atrocities are given in detailed affi-
davits selected from many moro made
by soldiers, officers and civilian Off
cials. These include. in Russia, not
only the use Of dumdum bullets. firing
on the Red Cross flag and ambulances
but organized looting and killing of
civilians and numerous authenticated
cases Of rape"
Cases are recorded of looting and
killing directed especially against Jew
ish civilians. who also were forced
under the lash to work in the trenches
during their holidays" Atrocities COM
mitted by the Cossacks assassinations
and robberfes and wanton destruction,
all supported by concrete instances,
were verified, 1t Is claimed. after the
Austrans reoccupied the invaded ter