"REPRISAL"- PRISONERS IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2466, 20 May 1915, Page 5

"REPRISAL"- PRISONERS IN GERMANY

HOW THEY ARE TREATED. (Rec. May 19, 7.40 p.m.) London, May 19. The American Consul visited thirteen British "reprisal prisoners" at Cologne. All were in excellent health, and their conditions had practically improved. \ Tliev were confined in an old military prison used for delinquent German commissioned and lion-commissioned officers —a gloomy, forbidding place, approximately clean. Tho cells arc small The officers were supplied with tho same food as other interned officers, reading and writing materials, a bathroom. and were treated courteously by the warders. A BATTERED SALVAGE FROM THE WRECK , MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S LIQUOR BILL, (Rcc. Slay 19, 6 p.m.) London, May 18. Disctissins in (be House of Commons his Immature Spirits Restriction Bill, Mr. Lloyd George (Chancellor of tlm Excheiiiii'r) admitted that his measuro was a battered .salvage from the wreck of his original proposal. It- had been tried in Canada, and had been found a valuable provision. In Australia the consumption of iru-m-simv apirilr, had caused a violent form af drunkenness. Experiments

had shown that while one who over indulged in matured spirits _ became drunk, but friendly, another, given raw spirits, became violent and offensive— "as disagreeable as any man. who ever attacked a Minister."—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)