IN GERMAN GAOLS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2372, 30 January 1915, Page 7

IN GERMAN GAOLS

AUSTRALIAN FARMER'S TRIALS. An Australian farmer, writing to tha "Daily Mail," says that his clothos hung loosely after his .experience in the • German gaols. . He. was touring Germany in May, and lost his temper, and struck a German who took his seat in a train. Eventu- v ally the German fell out of the train,, and was severely hurt. Tho farmer was placed in gaol for two months he- • fore being tried,; and .•was : - i thcn- sentenced to five months' imprisonment. • He ivas v employed„in£lring ..buttons for toy soldiers for the British market,"and _ then he declared himself to be an." American, and got. better treatment. He was given a ticket to Frankfort, -, and obtained money ' which had been 1 forwarded to the American Consul. Thence lio- went to'-Zurich, and so to' London. . After a fortnight's rest he intends to do to the front, whero, he says, "I will get a littlo of my own back.!'. .. ' Dr. Mackinnon, tho head of the Anglo-American Mission at the front, who was taken prisoner by the Germans, says that after being brutally treated he was put with seventeen otnef allied-' subjects in a vermin-infested roem'Mft by lift. Such a room should h'avsi accommodated only four people. %