BELGIUM

25.-BREACH OF OTHER RULES RELATING TO THE RED CROSS

Shots fired from a German car by our men wearing Red Cross Aug. 19, 1914 Beauvechain. badges

German troops.

TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY.

1 See also under Nos. 21 and 22.

FRANCE

28.-DIRECTIONS TO GIVE NO QUARTER

German officers were instructed to give the following order to Aug. 1914.
their troops: "From to-day onwards no more prisoners will be
taken. All the prisoners, wounded or otherwise, are to be
killed"

ITALY

An order to "take as few prisoners as possible," given by an
Austrian general on the Italian front. The first act committed
in execution of this order was the massacre of 700 Italian
prisoners

Thiaville (Meurthe et Mo-
selle)

German General.

Date not Italian front.. given

3rd Report of French Commission of Enquiry, Nos. 53-72.

Austrian General..

Catellani's Report, p. 73.

29.-ILL-TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR AND WOUNDED

BELGIUM

Prisoners were drawn up in files along the Meuse to protect the Aug. 23, 1914 Germans, who marched behind them; 129 were killed not far from the prison

Dinant.

German troops.

Wounded prisoners killed by the Germans..

Aug. 26, 1914

Imprisonment of British soldiers under conditions of gross inhu-
manity. Confined in grossly overcrowded cells (sometimes
underground), without sanitary accommodation of any kind,
except a tub in the cell, which overflowed on to the floor where
the men slept. Badly ventilated. Vèrmin abounded. Had
starvation rations, and water was refused. In the summer-
time the heat was so great that the men had to strip naked.
Were ill-treated and became diseased and enfeebled. Dysen-
tery and sores were rife. The treatment was deliberate.
Five hundred British prisoners of war sent to a camp on the Rus-
sian Front, where they were detained under conditions that in-
volved many deaths and terrible suffering. Terrible circum-
stances, in which they made a midwinter march to Latchen, up
the frozen River Aa from Libau. Fearful conditions of expos-
ure from Arctic cold and the fire of the enemy. At Latchen,
subjected to brutality and want, resulting in much loss of life
and permanent disablement. At the end of April only 77 men
were left in the camp, of whom 47 were unfit
The Turkish authority who ordered the march of British prison-
ers of war was cognisant of the sufferings it involved, and was
informed of the great sufferings that were being endured.
Deaths resulted. Inhuman treatment in the working camps.
Inhuman reprisals on British officers at Constantinople. In-
human treatment of British officers and others at Constanti-
nople. Inhumanity to British officers at Changri in order to
compel them to give their parole

20th Report of Belgian Commission of Enquiry, pp. 92, 93.

21st Report of Belgian Commission of Enquiry, p. 131.

5th Report of Belgian Commission of Enquiry, p. 65.

29.-ILL-TREATMENN OF PRISONERS OF WAR AND WOUNDED-Continued.