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Show TEUTON CRUEITY Prisoners in German Prison Camps Treated ; Worse Than Pigs. DISCLOSE H0RR0RS British Publish Names i of Commandants of J - the Camps.; LONDON. Dec. 5. (British Wireless Wire-less Service) The commandants of the notorious German prison camps of the Hanover command, who subjected sub-jected British officers to gross indignities indig-nities and brutal treatment, have been ' exposed in the latest report of Sir Robert Younger, judge of the high , court of justice and his committee ' which has been dealing with the treatment by the enemy of British prisoners of war. The committees-report says it Is not in the grea'fovent. involving at least one case of homicide and which will receive special 'attention on some other occasion, that tho true signifi-'cance signifi-'cance of tho Germnn horrors is to bo found, but in tho petty tyranny constantly con-stantly exercised; the punlshmont of ; men for so-called offenses, needless ; restrictions and the overbearing con-, con-, duct of the German authorities. Tho report says that, in 1917, General Gen-eral von Haonisch, in charge of the : prison camps, carried out a system of ' coercion in conjunction with Captains I Nlomoyer. twin brothers. command dants, respectively, at Holzmindcn and 1 Kalusthal. General von Haenlsch is termed an unreasonable and cruel man, endowed with a violent temper. He took every I opportunity to curtail anything which , would make tho prison life less irk-j irk-j some. He called the prisoners dogs 'and pigs as also did General Pavlov -'ski. Inspector general of the Hanover j command. "Theso aro our enemies," , Genoral von Haenlsch told the com-I com-I mandant at Appel. "Don't forget to ! treat them as such." He was speaking of French officer prisoners. In the presonce of Italian prisoners, General von Haenisch said: "Theso are our would-bo allies. Do not forget that." On reaching the British sector of the line, General von Haenlsch declared, de-clared, speaking of tho British, "I am hoping every day to receive tho order to send some of theso people to be put up behind our lines to be shot by British shells." Captain Nlemeyer of Holsmlnden is spoken of as "the personification of 'hale." He would swagger up and down the camp and demand to be saluted I on every passage. Those who refused i to salute were sentenced to from throe to six days In cells. Tho senior British Brit-ish officer, who complained of profiteering prof-iteering in the canteen, was seul to another camp. Nlemeyer rejoiced in i flourishing his revolver on all occasions. occa-sions. He misled the neutral representatives repre-sentatives on their visits to the camps. The other Nlemeyer. the report savs, lied to the prisoners, to his superior sup-erior officers and to tho .representatives .representa-tives of The Netherlands legation. He. suppressed evidence of having prison-) ers removed to other carupp. On one occasion he ordered an officer to get down on his knees before him. Upon tho officer's rot'usnl a sentry was: called forward and forced the officer to kneel. j nn |
