Arizona republican., 1915-07-16

| ------------------ lstruck across both legs with a rifle land was injured. We witnessed most lpitiable scenes. child, nine years. was so Frightened that it refused to follow the others and clung with lboth hands to the railings at the Iexit; guard civique hit it with its sabre and cut its left hand off. | An Austrian couple, who had owned a restaurant at Antwerp for the last sixteen years was terribly l lill-treated by the mob. The poor woman had one of her eyes pierced with a fork while her husband had two fingers cut off. Another Aus ltrian woman was expelled from d maternity home with her five days old baby She had neither dress nor shirt on her body which was only lcovered with a dirty bed sheet. It was a heart-rending scene yet it did not prevent a garde civique from making fun of her in shameless manner; it was such a comedy. livery amusing, indeed"
 | With reference to the treatment of IAustro- Hungarian nationals in France the chief complaint was against the
 
 men and children in the concentra- ton camps. A deposition of Miss NJ. F. Schreiner, graduate nurse. pictures conditions in a convent at Garrison to which Austrians Hun garians and Germans were ordered after a march of 20 kilometers. Here lthey were informed that they were ,prisoners of war.
 There were altogether about l. 900 prisoners" declared Miss Schrein- CT, half of whom were women anu lchildren. There was no furniture available and straw was the sole | bedding. Under the pretext of safe Ity. the existing latrines were boarded lup and holes in the ground were dug by the male prisoners in lieu of other arrangements. There were no lprovisions for washing. Insufficiency lof food and weather conditions soon Drought about Illnesses such as dys- lentery. and in consequence of the in iadequate latrines. epidemics broke lout. Two women were confined and thad to put up with the most atro- scious treatment. Four people died"
 Other cases cited included the ma Elicious punishment rough medical at tendance by veterinary surgeon" land the shameless mOlestation of interned girls by French soldiers" lat Stables d'Olonne.
 The young girls" according to one of the dispositions, were expos ed to criminal assaults by the sol tdiers. Tn the beginning, they were lherded together with the young men land had to share their rooms or stables with them. Modesty forbids lspecification of all the acts of in decency to which We had to submit; worst of alI offenders was the com mission of police Maternes, who un- mercifully maltreated all those who opposed his immoral designs
 The Royal Hungarian Ministry of the Interior obtained on January II, 1915 a report of "the murder of in lterned Hungarians at Argenton- Cruse, fingers, Bastid-St. Pierre. La Courtine, Garaison. and Orville." l In Great Britain. insufficient food land accommodations. it is claimed, lwere accorded the interned nationale lat Davenport and Newbury.
 In Russia, the intelligence depart ment of the Austro- Hungarian gen 1eral staff learned of "barbarous treatment inflicted on the interned
 
 Ivation depleted their ranks by the hundreds" In Serbia besides rough ltreatment, plundering and insufficient food compulsory naturalization was enforced prisoners of war were rob bed. 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 Ser bia and Montenegro are accused of various atrocities are given in de tailed affidavits selected from many more made by soldiers, officers and civilian officials. These include, in Russia, not only the use of dunn dunn bullets, firing on the Red Cross 1 flag and ambulances, but organized footing and killing of civilians and numerous authenticated cases of rape"
 l Cases are recorded of footing 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, tassa ssinations and robberies and wan ton destruction, all supported by lconcrete instances were verified it is claimed after the Austrians reoc- cupied the invaded territory where the alleged violations had occurred. WOULDN'T WEAR 4 "MOLECULE."