BRITISH PRISONERS IN GERMANY
CONFLICTING REPORTS. Berlin, April 28. Aoeording to the "North German Gazette," the American and SpanishAmbassadors visited the prisoners' camps and found the English and other prisoners well cared' for and .humanely; treated. • ; : BRITISH F AIRPLAY. Potrograd, April 26. Newspapers eulogise Britain's justice ond unvarying treatment of German prisoners, notwithstanding that British prisoners are suffering in Germany. A VERY DIFFERENT STORY. London, April 20. A speaker at a recruiting meeting at Fnlham read an authenticated, letter garding the treatment of British prisoners in Germany. The letter stated: . "Wo are being starved here. Rice water and horse beans are our only solid food. Wo had one loaf of bread, in six days. The guard bayoneted several men; others were flogged and tied ' to a barbed-wire post for six hours, irith their toes just touching the ground. We have hardly anything to \tear, our captors having taken our clothes. It is worse than being in hell."—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" services.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2447, 28 April 1915, Page 7
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161BRITISH PRISONERS IN GERMANY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2447, 28 April 1915, Page 7
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