TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS
BRITISH PRISONERS IN WITTENBERG CAMP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, November 21. Tho Press Bureau publishes a report from Mr. Osborne, of the American Embassy, 011 the Wittenberg .. Camp, whero there are four hundred English prisoners, including thirty-four civilians. Clothing was the chief source of trouble ;■ there were no f overcoats. ■ A watchman took a fierce dog to-tho barrocks,, and it attacked sevoral prisoners, tearing their clothos. A soldier in a bathhouso struck with his closed fi6t several prisoners, including one with a crippled right arm, for dressing slowly.
Mr. Osborno says his impression of tho authorities at Wittenberg is utterly unlike that formed at other camps visited. Instead of regarding their charges as honourable prisoners of war, it appeared that they wero regarded as criminals, for whom a regime of fear would alone suffice. All evidence of kindly human feeling between tho authorities and tho prisoners was lacking.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2626, 23 November 1915, Page 5
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151TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2626, 23 November 1915, Page 5
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