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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jun 17, 1916
Page
4
The report covers mixed maritime and legal items from St Johns including a ship collision at Narrows and crew actions aboard the SS Lynflord, longshoremen labor issues, a Supreme Court verdict in a case involving A Hickam, and civic notes on municipal elections and yacht activities. It also notes a Newfoundlander honored posthumously and weather and fisheries observations.
Canadian Private Robert D Laby described brutal conditions at a German internment camp. He reported starvation diet, minimal bread and soup, shelling of beds with bare straw mattresses, and guards beating prisoners. Laby recounted being tortured, forced to work in mines, and denied parcels despite sent aid.
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