OFFICERS' PRISON

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2649, 21 December 1915, Page 7

OFFICERS' PRISON

HOW GERMANS, ARE TREATED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, December 19. The New York Associated Press correspondent, who visited ,the officers prison at llolyport, Berkshire, formerly au Army Preparatory School, which contains 120 Army and Navy officers and G2 orderlies, says: The officers are compelled twice a week to proceed 18-acre playing field, containing football arounds and tennis courts. The field, may be used daily for 2J hours if desired. It is located outside; the barbccl wire fence, and the prison is surrounded by guards while the Germans are exercising. . , Lieutonant-Colonel Sir Jolin Gladstone is in command of the prison, but discipline is left to the Germans under the command of the senior officer, Commander Bocliainer, who was second m comI tnand of tlid cruiser Gneisenau, sunk in the Falkland Islands battle.. ' I The officers are left to their own devices within the school building, and no British entor, except for occasional visits of inspection. Each officer veceives a dollar a day, and is flowed to arrange hi 6 own commissariat, which he succeeds in doing at a cost scarcely exceeding 50 ccnts. (25.) a day. No prisoner has escaped, although a seyious attempt to make a tunnel was discovered when progress had been mado for 11 feet, with 60 ,-,ards to go. But the makers of t.Ho tunnel were not detected. • . , [lie prisoners include Dr. ■ Mar cm Luther, the Enulen's surgeon, isomo survivors from the Falkland Islands battlo, a few merchant marine reserve men. Among the prisoners is the first captive of tho war, Captain Muhlbaiter, who commanded an East African liner without wireiess, which put into Ma.ta to escape from the Russians, and was captured a fow minutes after the r.ews of England's declaration of war arrived. Herr Kolilsputter, the astronomer of tho Mount "Wilson Observatory, California, is also in the prison. " TIT FOR TAT;' TREATMENT OF WAlt PRISONERS. Paris, December 19. As Germany is not complying with the demands concerning prisoners food, the Minister of War (M. Gnllieni). has decided that tho food for German onsoners in Franco is to _ correspond with that of tho prisoners in Germany.-