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Show BRIGADIER GENERAL RICHARD RICH-ARD W. YOUNG, commander pof Sixty-fifth brigade, -which is ordered or-dered home." The 145th Field Artillery Artil-lery (First Utah), is a part of the Sixty-fifth brigade. I . : :. . I H ' I . - ' 'ffe- ,c?2 If J I ' . ' J 0 i 1 . "i " - f ' ' "J V ' $ -f, j i 1 I I ! h t ' . J ' ' V 1 j IR EVIDENCES . OF HUNCRUELTY Pitiable Conditions Among Liberated British Prisoners Prison-ers Recited by Reporter. i LON'DOX, Nov. 23. Pitiable conditions among British prisoners of war who have been liberated by the Germans since the signing of the armistice are described by Ueuter's correspondent at French headquarters. Thousands of llioso men, mostly British, arc entering France daily. The correspondent writes: "I have, never seen human beings In such a state ot raggedriess, hunger and misery. When the camp at Forbach, thirty-eight miles cast of Metz, as well as those elsewhere, were broken up, the prisoners, most ot whom were captured during the March offensive, were told to rlear out and seek help from their allies. They started to walk the fifty or sixty miles to the allied lines, but wp.ro give!) no food and had no money. They were in shameful men, the soles dropping off their boots. Some wore clogs and no socks. "They left the prison camps in droves of hundreds, in charge of German officers and soldiers who had descried. The weather was very cold and many died by the roadside within a lew miles from friends. When the survivors entered the French lines, French soldiers who were hardened war heroes wero horrified to see men in su-h a plight. It. is not doubted that this suffering was intentionally inten-tionally impoKfd upon the British. Prisoners Pris-oners of other nationalities are aprpfd that the British were treated worse than the other prisoners at all German cam ph." A further report by .Sir Robert Younger's committee, dealing with the treatment of Kritish prisoners in the coal and salt mines of Germany, givus harrowing har-rowing details of brutal treatment by tho' Germans. This report says: "From testimony scarcely a month old, it is evident that there is no sign of improvement im-provement whatever in the treatment of prisoners In Germany. This disgrace Is open and flagrant and the only possible inference is tha t Berlin deliberately h improves im-proves of it. There is no doubt, t hat work in the mines is inflicted as punishment. punish-ment. TIero is an extract from a letter dated May 20 last from a British private soldier: " 'We have hnd lit.llc to eat since wn left Mameln. Two of our number have gone to the hospital with broken arms and the remainder are suffering from j cuts on their heads and bruises as the 'result of floggings they received at the ! last, place. T fell In a fainr, unable to I work any longer, last Saturday and tho j man In charge, a civilian, kicked me back into piy senses and kept mc down in the mine sixteen hours after all my gang had gone up. If you could only see the boys here! They all look like dead men. They are worked to death.' " To scores of men who have given evidence evi-dence concerning the mining camps, kicks, blows and insullsv became a pari of the normal routine. It Is impossible to say how many prisoners' pris-oners' lives were sacrificed, for until more evidence is given by men who have he-en set free the exact conditions must remain in obscurity. |