Show i of German GermanI I Brutality to Helpless ss 1 f By Br J e Jan i. i Justice on tho the employment of or ah eh r h prisoners In German coal and mines discloses more Instances of oC o o Ii brutality In Its report Just Issued e 0 committee says that as late lato as ns aser cr cr er last tho the terrible torribio conditions un- un our soldiers BoldI wore forced to toc c had not Improved although h rodl ro- ro I edly dl denounced and tho anI only Infer Infer- ln that Berlin deliberately apes ap ap- os es i 1 English iEnglish private nto writing from a amine mine intine noar near on May 10 1917 1017 fel ft t Salt Worker r W. W PT c I have had practically nothing to Ince w we left Hameln W Wo 0 P lost all ambition through lack of ot L 1 Do tr try and got bot us back If IC anI only clink Two of ot our numbers have AEto B to hospital with broken arms and remainder aro suffering Buttering with cut cutto its to and bruises bruise tho the result of oC a n flog flog- they got ot at tho the last place Saturday last I fell In a n. faint unto un- un io to vv work ork any an longer long and tho man barge arge a n. civilian kicked and beat b back cl to m my senses and kept mo me rn nJ if in tho mino for sixteen hours o r all my gan gang had gone Sone up If It you OU donly d only see seo tho the boys bos here They all like dead men the they aro arc all worked Ilea leath eath th I II Use Ue c Rifle Butt Dutt on Men Ment rt t tho British authorities never er took tool for tor tho manner in which our ourS ics es S were tortured i tho the French did private In the tho Royal Hoal West Vest Kents ribes a typical Incident which took eln o January 1917 1017 at a salt mine mino to which prisoners at eln were sent He says sas r tie he thirteen prisoners refused to go So I down cown In tn tho the mine the tho first day B By order order order or or- orI or- I der of ot Blumer a German private given given given en In the presence of oC tho the comman commandant ant tho the sentries started knocking us about the body with their flats fists and butts They us to an underground cellar and ancI kept us there thero for three three days and over every morning they camo came ant nn and knocked us about Tho floor of oC the tho collar cellar was damp and there thero was no nc light and no air and wo had to sloop on the damp floor They gave us each a n. small piece picco of ot bread brea and some somo water ovary every da day Civilians Civilian In Brutality On the fourth da day we were lined up In the tho mine yard and asked whether wo we would go 0 down Wo We refused Then tho the soldiers nino nano In number struck us with their rifles and about twenty twenty- five civilian cl workmen chased us till we were driven to tho shaft moro more doad doat than alive Then wo we were pushed Into tho the cage and sent down Sentries stood over us and kicked u us while we woree worked and said v e should not go bO up till tho work was done Wo We were taken down about 7 7 70 30 O or 8 S a a. a in m and brought up to tho tiro surface at Sp S p II p. p m m. and had no food all that time time The committee says sa 5 It Is Impossible blo ble to read tho the remarkable body of or evi 1 evidence dence without being Impressed by the tho spirit of oC which these small handfuls of ot British prisoners havo have preserved throughout their suffer suffer- ings It Is la a spirit which ha has been consistently consistently con con- misunderstood and mismanaged mismanaged aged by b the enemy The Gorman system has been to enforce enforce enforce en en- force discipline first b by abuse an and whore that has failed by b unrestrained violence thus provoking opposition from the very ery start and continually continual hardening the mens men's determination to toI I resist |