"A. RATION OF ROTTERS"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2705, 26 February 1916, Page 5

"A. RATION OF ROTTERS"

WHAT A'RELEASED PRISONER

THINKS OF GERMANY

By Telegraph—Press Aseociation-Oopyright

Sydney, February 25. Mr. Carden Harvey, a resident of Germany for sixteen years,'and formerly tutor to the Princes August AVilhelm, Oscar, and Joachinii and who spent on© year in the Riihleben internment camp, has arrived here. Ho confirms the reports of Prussian brutality. At the outbreak of the.war Mr. Harvey was English examiner to the German Navy at Kiel. . On November 6,-1914, aii Englishmen wero ordered to lie interned. They wero arrested, submitted to' every indignity, and sent to lluhloben, which was originally a trotting course. The prisoners were housed in stables, six men to each loose-box, some of which wero so damp that tttey had never been used for horses. They were, however, considered good enough'for the English prisoners, \vho will suffer from rheumatism .ill their lives. In winter the place was a quagmire, awl the cold, hunger, and depressing conditions caused the prisoners much misery. Tho treatment meted out at tho military camps was simply shocking. The Germans,' says Mr. Harvey, are a nation of bullies. They have 110 senso fit honesty, truth, or decency. Thoy hate the English like poison. Thoy have 110 more religion than beasts. As a nation thoy are scoffers; as a nation they are rotters. They worship two .things and two alone—themselves and money. "When I see sloppy sentimentality treating, the Germans nicely it positively makes me furioin ' n cy do not pay much hoed to the feelings of the unfortunate English people in Cor 1 many."