A BROKEN AGREEMENT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2507, 7 July 1915, Page 7

A BROKEN AGREEMENT

GERMAN FAILURE TO EXCHANGE WOUNDED. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright m, London, July S. The Foreign Office; confirms the rumour that Germany has failed to carry out the agreement to exchange wounded, though the , Dutch authorities made preparation to receive 150 whom the; Germans had definitely promised to release* .. \ BRITISH OFFICERS' CAMP AT BLANKENBERGHE. VISITED BY AMERICAN OFFICIAL ■ , ■ .' representative. Mr. W. H. Page, : United State's Ambassador, has informed Sir Edward Grey British Foreign Secretary, that a representative of the United States Embassy ui Berlin visited British officers at i Blankenberghe. Many were playing' tenins,/and there" wero no complaints, except regarding the monotony. Their allowances for beer and light, wines had been increased owing to the heat. I : Since a Frenchman attempted ; to'escape the officers aro not permitted to go outsido the dormitories after 7' in the evening. Tho camps at Altdamm are healthy. They are surrounded by pinewoods, and four hundred British, one of whom died of wounds. The principal food is vegetable soup and pickled herrings. Tho officers play football and have also organised a band.,