Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1914 — CALL CZAR’S TROOPS CRUEL [ARTICLE]

CALL CZAR’S TROOPS CRUEL

Prussian Officer Declares That Russians Mutilated Wounded German Soldiers and Civilians. Berlin, Sept. 18, by Wireless to Sayville, L. I.—ln support of its charges of cruelties by the Russians the war office declares thht Lieutenant Tiedemann of the Fifth Prussian Cuirassiers found 21 German recruits lying helpless on the highway. < They had been surprised at a point in East Prussia the day before by Cossacks, who had in some cases severed hands at the wrist, in others the feet below the knee, and in still others had cut off ears and noses. One Russian officer who was captured had cut off a worn an's finger with a valuable ring on it. and it was found in his pocket. The •oinmandant of the Eleventh German army corps, the war office says, reports that Russians have cut off the fingers and hands of noncombatanls. Officers of the German lundwehr report the finding of 20 persons killed, including one woman whose breasts had been slashed off with a.saber