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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2333, 15 December 1914, Page 6

Judging by the way. the German prisoners from Now Guinea are being treated (says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph"), if the captain of the Emden were to come here, no residence but Sir Gerald Stricklaud'6 or the Primate's would be considered worthy of him. The Minister of Defence has explained that it is not true that these prisoners are being accommodated in expensive flats at Potts Point, and the best rooms in Sydney's leading hotels. ' But from what ho admits, they are being provided for on a scale entirely disproportionate to their condition and desserts.. Why should it have been agreed, under the terms of capitulation, that "the higher (German) officials should receive threo months' salary" ? Could they not be persuaded to surrender without that ? And,why "the higher officials"? Was it because the lower and plcbian sort had probably less to do witli the importing of those jagged bayonets that smash the bones and break the rules of civilised warfare? Higher and lower, tlieso men are simply prisonors, entitled to be treated humanely, and given reasonable, though simple, accommodation, and no more. They are not honoured guests of high degree.