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ON for my Tsar." In reply to this the off- cer calmly took out his revolver, and with the words" All right, die!" shot him. through the chest,
THE EASTERN FRONT,
STATEMENT BY AN AUSTRIAN OFFICEL
PERING, August lith. The following despatch from the Gen erat Headquarters of the Russian Army, dated August 1st, has been handed to
Agency by Reuter's
Russiao the
Legation:--
An Austrian lieutenant belonging to an infantry regiment, who prisoner, gave on July 2nd the following information during his ess-examina
tion
PRUSSIAN ATROCITIEN.
WAS made
Our Austrias division has been operate ing for two months with the Germans, our regiment having more frequently us neighbours the Prussian Guard. If only Russian soldiers knew what incredible sufferings, what an awful and shameful death awaits many of then, they would not surrender alive. 1 shall relate to you several incidents tit. 1 witnessed ur that were narrated to me by our offers Fund-soldier
TORTURE AND SUFFERINGS OF THE LENS TANK.
(1)--Ak the end of April and in May, during the Russian cetreat to the River San and beyond, many times my soldiers, Bohmians, Poles and Rutheas, rushed up to me saying with terror depicted in their faces, that somewhere nearby, where they were Gorman and partly Austria soldiers, the Germans were torturing Russian prisoners and formenting them to deattle Many times did I run to the place inclined and awful sernes met my Te many places, weir strewn the disfigured and mutilated orpses si ha Russian soldiers. The German soldieys standing near declared each time that they had only obeyed the orders of their superiors.
GERMAN BRUTALITY.
When I questioned the German oificera as to the truth of this statement, they Thus Bust one deal with answered: every Russian prisoner, and vatif you Austrians act in the same way you will never be successful. Only when the soldier becomes wild with rage, dera ho fight well, and therefore our soldiers have to exercise their cruelty on Russian prisoners, who, as traitors to their coun- try, having willingly surrendered, do not deserve anything else but tortare,
I witnessed very many of such eses on a comparatively small front, but, it is awful to banging how many of these, corpses of tortured Russian prisoners are strewn all over Galicia, There are thoni- sands of them.
THE SCHOOL OF CRUELTY
(6.) The German officers constantly: seach bur Austrian soldiers and theirs to be cruel to Russian-prisoners, wounded and dead. I saw with my own eyes how the Germans forced our Uhlans to exer. cise themselves by sabring wounded and dead Russians who had got stuck in the marshes. I was horrer struck at the sight of the Uhlans, who, carefully creeping up to the marsh, slashed off the beads of the Russians, many of whom were cor- tainly still alive, as the fighting at this In conclusion the Austrian eutemmat place had only ceased two days before. said: "I give you my word of honour as an officer that all I have related is true and I am ready to repeat it wherever and to whomsoever you wish."
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Some revelations of the methods aðlegul to have been adopted by big American companies and agents in yent al countries were discussed last month in the Lendo 1. Prize Court before Sir Samuel Evans. The evidence was given in form of Fu which passed between agents and several firms who are claiming valuable argues consigned to Scandinavian countries in neutral vessels, but which food mid food products, it was alleged, found its way to Germany, where some of it was avail- able for making high explosives. steamer Kim is to be taken as a to for about forty vessel, conccrued.
Th
Continuing the case for the Crown, the Attorney General read correspondenc between Archer & Co., in Hamburg, and the. Cudahy Packing Company, of "Ante- rea. The former in December last refer- red to tins of beef, and said:
Your prices, although extravagatly
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The Judge-Where was this letter. wriken Afro-The Atry-General: In Hamburg
hought,
of ending the neutral zathorities?
BERNING OF RUSSIAN PRISONERS, (2.1 wife village of Burown, throw miles eastward of Jaroslav, 1 myself
The errespondener read givi sugees xaw the Cormans uk in Russian tions how gead should be prisoners in a wooden shed and then set ingoiod, er, so as to app ær de pro- Another ure to it on all sides. The unfortunate party of real centred buyers.. martyrs attempted to break open henggestion made was that the Foodstuffs boards of the shed in order to escape from might be wide up in Holland with the the burning building, but those who shijeet (it was suggested by the Attorney ceded in pushing through the opening General) had their heads smashed in with loo cudgels by the jeering Germans, and their corpses, covered with blood, were thrown back into the fire. The peasant proprie tors of the burning shed implored the Germans at first to put an end to the sufferings of the unfortunate prisoners but were obliged to desist. The German soldiers replied: If you continue to intercede for these dogs of traiters, whe have surrendered themselves to us. you will be nadeel to their number in the shed:"
DROWNING RUSSIAN PRISONERS IN THE SAN
His lordship: Changed into feorf in Holland, but containing the same amount of fat which you gay is capable of turning out glycerine?
Yes, my red; it 3 new suit.
Attorney General: is quite the same stuff in (Laughter.)
Messrs. Archer, it was said, wrote the Cudahy Company --
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Enormous quantities of provisions have been shipped to Denmark recently and we gather that the steamer Alfred Yolet alone has upwards of halba- million dollars worth of lard on board. The fate of this stenura is still neer (3)During the crossing of the River
tain until it is solved no one cares to San in May by the rearguard units of
The parcel of the Austro-German army a great mass of repent the experience.
lard. is shipped by Armours, Swifts, convoys and troops assambled on the
and your good selves, and we think bridges. The roads became blocked and
most of it has been seld long ago to in addition from the opposite diremon
Germany with the provision that the came a large party of Russian prisoners,
trade (contract) is cancelled if the lardi a great many of whom were already
should not arrivo. assembled at the crossings. The Germans
The Attorney-General contended there became furious and their officers gave the
doubt
conspiracy was beyond all inhuman order to "throw these villain- ous prisoners into the San." A terrible between all the parties concerned to roai sceno ensued, a scene that will remain deceive the belligerents as to the reality
The maddened of the transactions before my eyes for ever.
the Russian destinations. threw German soldiers
The hearing was adjourned. prisoners off the bridges into the river and those who offered any resistance were knocked down with the bayonet or rifle butt. The Germans were not long in seeing, however, that the majority of those thrown into the river were saving them selves by swimming ashore. The soldiers therefore, were then ordered to bayonet the prisoners and throw the wounded or dead men into the San, Many hundreds were thus of unfortunate Russians bayonetted and drowned in the river.
man
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GERMANY AND THE COTTON PROBLEM.
FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ON MANUFACTURERS.
The Berliner Tageblatt publishes an i teresting note on the measures taken and contemplated by the German military (4.)-A few days later my orderly, with authorities in order to dra) with the scar- tears in his eyes, told me how he saw a city of cotton and other extile materials. It is stated that, having dealt with cotton, Russian prisoner, wounded in the arm, being forced to carry on his back a Ger- the authorities are about to restrict the
The Russian wounded soldier. obeyed, but soon his strength forsook manufacture of woollen goods and to im
pose restrictions upon the dax and hemp him and, showing his arm covered with. blood, he asked for one of the unwounded industries and also upon the manufacture In all cases the of packing materials. A German Germans to take his place. officer, hearing this, ordered the Russian method adopted is restriction sulely of to be killed by one of his soldiers, who goods manufactured for other than mili carried out the order, saying, "Yes, you tary purposes, and it is expressly stated that the regulations do not apply to manu are now worthless."
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HEROISM OF A RUSSIAN TELEPHONIST,
The Berliner Tageblatt points out that (5.)-It happened that one of my non- commissioned officers, commanding & Germany produces a certain but insuffi- platoon, ran up to me with a request to cient amount of wool, hemp, and flax, while Have a Russian prisoner who was being her whole consumption of cotton and juze crually tortured by the Germans,
is imported. The action of the authe hastened to
rities is described as having been taken in the spot indicated, but was too late. In front of me lay a dis-
consequence of the increased severity of the figured corpse with a bullet through the trade war waged by England, but espe chest, The soldiers who stood acacial'y in consequence of the intervention
The military authorities have to HE OBTAINED FROM THE— Russian
of Italy. me that this was a toid telephonist who refused to answer the questions put to him regarding the where now worked out a comprehensive econe- abouts of the Russian troops. The officer raic plan upon the basis of which business who was questioning the telephonist in the German textile industry is to e began to strike him and spoke offensively regulated." As is well known, the autho
The unfor-rities have forbidden the manufacture of of the Russian Emperor. tunate martyr remained silent, not with all except the most necessary cotton goods, standing the hard blows he was receiving and in the manufacture of there have for used bidden the use of any but prescribed yarns. and only when the officer sain improper expressions regarding the According to the Tageblatt, it is "possible" Emperor's sacred person; the prisoner that the restrictions will shortly be made proudly exclaimed, I am ready to die more severe.
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