THE LEIPZIG TRIALS.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I notice in your review of Mr. Mullins' book, in the issue of December 10th, on the Leipzig trials, that you represent calling a prisoner a " pig-dog " as a trifle. It may be a small matter in comparison with other things which Itad-'to bo en- dured, but I can assure you, Sir, that, being revive), called by the command of " Get up, you pig-dogs!" given by a cor- poral at 6 a.m. for many months on end, at a time when wo were poorly clad, ill fed, and suffering front very severe cold, was anything but a trifle to the officers who had to endure this form of insult.—I am, Sir, Ite., EX-PRISONER OP WAR. [We sought to point out the strange mentality of the German judges, to whom petty insults seemed more important than the physical cruelty inflicted on our unhappy prisoners. To call a prisoner " pig-clog " was a trifle in comparison with the brutal assaults, resulting sometimes in death, which many of our men had to endure.—ED. Spectator.]
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