PRISONERS OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2834, 27 July 1916, Page 5

PRISONERS OF WAR

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT i Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, July 25. Mr. H. W. Forster, Financial Secretary to the War Office, stated in tho Houso of Commons that on Juno .10, 25,350 British prisoners, including 721 officers, wero in German' hands, and 20,200 Germans were in British hands, including 401 officers, and also 1167 naval prisoners. , Lord Robert Cecil stated that satisfactory reports had been received as to tho treatment of British prisoners of war in Bulgaria. GERMAN IMPRESSION OF THE BRITISH PRISONERS. (Rec. July 2l>, 7.30 p.m.) London, July 2li. The "Frankfurter Zoitung's" 'corros-

pondent, describing tho British prisoners who were taken at Montauban and (Drillers, says: "They wero proudly defiant, like boys who had been caught after a good fight. Their attitude was one ot extrome indifference. One prisoner, when asked what Germany could claim when she won tho war, replied: "Germany win! Never! It is quite impossible. BRITISH PRISONERS IN ASIA MINOR ILL-TREATMENT SUSPECTED. „„ ,„, London, July 2, r ). ilio Daily Mail" states that tho American authorities in Constantinople have warned- tho British Government that, tho treatment accorded to General lowushend does not apply to his officers and moil. . Americans are not allowed to inquire into the conditions of the British prisoners in lurkey and Mesopotamia and it is behoved that they aro being harshly treated. General Townshend's good treatment is probably a Young Turk trick to divert attention from tho Armenian massacres.