EMPLOYING PRISONERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2825, 17 July 1916, Page 5

EMPLOYING PRISONERS

GEItMANS RETALIATE. Australian-Hew Zealand Cablo Association. (Rec. July 10, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 15. • Thcro are twenty thousand Gernuui soldiers and sailors in Britain, half of whom are unemployed. 'Somo were sent to France to unload ships, and tho Germans retaliated by sending British prisoners to work at Lihau and Windau.

Hero is an incident, told by Miss O'Reilly, an American, journalist who has seen much of the war in Poland, which shows the spirit in which Russia is fighting. "Ono morning I met ■ a woman of about 70 tramping through to countryside, and, when 6poken to, sho said sho had como to see tho soldiers. 'If you go much farther you will hear the Gorman! guns,' sho was told. 'Please God, I will,' answered tho old woman. 'It lias cost luo 45 kopeks (about lid.) to mako tho journey. I should be ashamed of myself if tho armies of the world came by my door and I put my faco in my cupboard. After the war thero will 1)0 no Huns ou tho estates whero they liavo been overseers. Tins is a crusade: The Tsar has said it."

I'ostwomen at Hendon have been, supplied with a uniform, blue coat with yod facings and brass buttons, short skirt, and wide-brimmed bluo straw hat of the latest shape, with a red-edged hatband. Tho shortage) of farm ■ labourers ill Canada is being relieved to 6omo extent by an arrangemont under which enemy aliens will bo released on parole from internment camps to help fanners in their work.

The "Vossischo Zeitung" states that in Greater Berlin 16,622 marriages were celebrated in 1915, against 22,702 in 1911. Tho figures for 1916, so far as they are known, show a striking decline from 1915. Tho birth-rato is also considerably behind that of 1014—21,01)4 in 1915, against 2',),020 in the previous year. Of the 24,061 births in 11)15, no fewer than 6749 woro illegitimate, or nearly 28 per cent.'

A conscientious objector, chargcd at Willesden with failing to enter tho army, ate a -SI Treasury noto in his cell rather than pay it off Iris fino of 40s. He expressed regret to tho gaoler that the hal"™ - i-\. pil*\ -