BRITISH PRISONERS IN GERMANY
TREATMENT DISCUSSED IN PARLIAMENT . London, May 7. In the House of Lords, Lord Albemarle begged the Government, for tie sake of the British prisoners, to treat prisoners from German submarines as ordinary war prisoners. Lord Lucas, for- the Government, replied that separate treatment was necessary in the case of men who had been guilty of murdering harmless civilians. , In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil suggested that the belli-' gerents should jointly request Switzerland to undertake the care of all war prisoners. Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, said that lie doubted the practicability of securing a joint request or accomplishing the proposal. He was confident that Britain's treatment of war prisoners compared favourably with that of any country in any war. He added: "Our policy will continue. Maltreatment of war prisoners was not common, oven in the Dark Ages. Many other fiendish devices have been left to one of the Christian nations 'of Europe to invent and elaborate."—("Times" and Sydney "Sun"'Services.)
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2457, 10 May 1915, Page 6
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166BRITISH PRISONERS IN GERMANY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2457, 10 May 1915, Page 6
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