Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1919 — 72 RUSS KILLED BY HUNS [ARTICLE]

72 RUSS KILLED BY HUNS

Released War Prisoners Wearing Bavarian Uniforms Are Captured. I Berne, May 16. —An isolated band of Russian prisoners of war, armed and wearing Bavarian uniforms and under the command of Spartacan leaders, was overwhelmed by Wuerttemberg troops in a wood near Graefelfing, Bavaria, according to newspaper reports. They were court-martialed and 72 men, with the leaders, were condemned to death and shot in a gravel pit near Lochausen, it Is said.