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Show CRUELTY STORIES PROVOKE MIRTH OF PRISONERS BERLIN, Feb. 22. by wireless to Say-viUe. Say-viUe. An official inquiry has been bade by a German judge into charges published In England that British prisoners of war at the camp at JJinden had been treated cruelly, says a statement made today by the Overseas News agency. "Declarations obtained from the physicians physi-cians and the cross-examination of prisoners prison-ers proved the absolute untruth of these charges," the statement continues. "The evidence expressly states that when some of the allegations of cruelty published in England were read to the prisoners all of tiie Englishmen present broke out into laughter." The Overseas agency also states that the Russian government has ordered the dissolution of a prominent Russian economic econ-omic society because its members "freely discussed the desperate situation of the Russian gold market." |