Show HUN OUTRAGES AROUSE BRITISH I II I Boche B Burn Bum ul ii Prisoners With Liquid Fire Is Sworn I Statement Lon London via yla Montreal Io Aug 21 De Dc De Details tails tills of ot the tho German outrages on British prisoners have ha been made public Affidavits Affidavits Af At- of or Scotch soldiers testify to the authenticity of ot the charges A private of ot tho the no Royal al Highlanders tells how he and a n. number of or comrades comrades comrades com com- rades consisting of ot one officer and fifteen men ten of or whom were wounded were compelled to surrender near Monchy Monch March 28 A German officer ordered one of or his men to turn turna a stream of ot liquid fire down the trench I In n which the were standing Notwithstanding tho the fact th they y were unarmed the German Gorman continued to spray spra them for tor six lx or seven minutes lie ITe and a a. few of ot his companions who were able to move o scrambled down a communication trench and got over O the top and back bacle into the British lines Another private that he and other prisoners were marched down a a. trench to an emplacement about six feet deep nine feet teet wide and from rom nine to twelve c feet long IonS and while tightly packed In the enclosure two Germans one of ot whom carried a revolver and seemed to be an officer appeared The Theother Theother Theother other man had a cylinder on his back bacle and attached to it was a flexible pipe Just as he reached the entrance to the enclosure ho he said a flame name spurted out In a a. stream from the pipe and caught the men who were nearest to tho the entrance The other men lay In heaps around and partly on me I heard a a. hissing sound for tor a short while Then It stopped then started again During this time the tho men wore were shriek shrieking Ins Ins- and writhing The Tho fian flame e reached right back to where I was M My overcoat and tunic caught fire B By this time all the men were on the ground The soldier sal said he lie managed to crawl up th the slope and get away Another sOl soldier ier told toM how an officer woun wounded ed in tho the head and foot and four other wounded and three unwounded unwounded unwounded un- un wounded men Including himself were In an old trench when two Germans German appeared and used liquid fire Ure One of the tho Germans revolver In hand order ordered d tho the to got get back bacle to the Carman German Ger Car man line The Tho narrator said his han hands s and right ear car wore burned Three o of ot tho the party part managed to escape and r reach ach the BrUsh lines but tho Germans either must have ha suffocated or burned all the tho five wounded men as nothing further had been heard from them The British government has haft protested protested pro pro- tested to the tho Gorman German I government against these outrages |