THE MOSAIC LAW

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2818, 8 July 1916, Page 3

THE MOSAIC LAW

PUNISHMENT,OF THE HUNS. "An eye for an eye" is the principle in which the Prime Minister believes in regard to the maltreatment of .British; .prisoners in Germany. Mr. W. H. l r ield, in the House of Representatives yesterday, mentioned, in view of the fact that our boys were now opppsed to the Germans in France, and liable to capture 'by them, that the public were becoming increasingly concerned over the treatment of British prisoners in Germany. Ho asked the Prime Minister, in view; of the maltreatment of British soldiers in Germany, whether it was not time that the voice of New Zealand-was heard and the Mother Country told that if New Zealand soldiers were ill-treated in Germany, then those responsible would be punished after the war for their crime. (Hear hear.) In reply, the Eight Hon. W. F. Massey said that he would be very glad to convey some message to the Imperial Government through His Excellency the Governor upon this point—perhaps not in the very terms used, but on the lines suggested. We were now very interested in every British prisoner, but we had a special responsibility to our men who were taken_ prisoners, and if maltreatment of New Zealand soldiers by the Germans took place he for one would T)o inclined to apply the mosaic law, and apply it to the very letter. (Hear, hear.)