HELD CAPTIVE BY THE TURKS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2836, 29 July 1916, Page 9

HELD CAPTIVE BY THE TURKS

STATEMENT ABOUT. ..THE BRITISH ..... PRISONERS. . Austraii'an-.New Zealand Cable. Association, ( London, July 27. Lord Robert Cecil (Undersecretary for Foreign .Affairs), ..in the. Rouse-of Com--rnoris, stated that the American Consul at Bagdad telegraphed on June. 26 that a thousand British 'prisoners of war were still ■in the city, too'ill or weak, to proceed. ilr. H. W. Forster, "Financial. Secre : tary to the War Offire, stated that the Turks held about 600. officers and 8370 men, including prisoners: taken in - the Dardanelles canipaign, and Indian - and Egyptian.native troops. FOR ORGANISED TREACHERY KITCHENER'S ADVICE ABOUT GERMANY'S PUNISHMENT.. . . .(Reuter's.Telegram.). ..—. . London, July 27. ■. The "Morning Post" asserts, that Lord Kitchener, shortly before his death, told that journal. that : Germany .should be punished for her organised treachery. He suggested'that the Imperial and Dofuirtion Parliaments, should, legislate prohibiting Germans: for twenty-one years after the war from being naturalised or domiciled in the Empire, arid from entering partnerships or becoming shareholders in British companies. He regarded Germany's conduct as something outside the range of human experience. They deliberately prepared, over a long series of years, to dominate the world. .They used their subjects as spies and agents of corruption,, and used the hospitality of their neighbours to prepare for their destruction. '