TREATMENT OF BRITISH PRISONERS
COMMITTEE TO DEAL WITH THE QUESTION. ("The Times.") (Rec. August 10, 10.55 p.m.) London, August 10. In tho House of Commons, Mr. Asquith announced that tho Government had appointed an Inter-DepnrEmcntal Committee, with Lord Newton as chairman, to deal with the question of tho treatment of British prisoners. THE PRISONERS FROM KtlT. (Rec. August 10, 10.55 p.m.) , London, August 10. 'A. traveller who saw . the British' prisoners from Kut, in Northern Syria, states that a number of them were in tho poorest condition. He had hoard that there wore forty officers in tha Tarsus Hospital. They had evidently undergone great privations. There were no medical comforts, ae the Turks lacked drugs.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2847, 11 August 1916, Page 5
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115TREATMENT OF BRITISH PRISONERS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2847, 11 August 1916, Page 5
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