A SYDNEY MERCHANT AT RUHLEBEN
Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. New York, September 6. Mr. William Simpson, a Sydney merchant, who has arrived at New York, en route to Australia, spent eighteen months in tho prison camp at Ruhleben. When ho left a few weeks_ ago there were still more than 4000 prisoners there, many being 65, and even" 70, years of ago. These men are not released becauso they have beon shipmasters and marine engineers. < Mr. Simpson travelled from Rnhleben with five others in a horse-box, 10ft. square, with damp and filthy straw on i the floor. Tho prisoners were treated i harshly. The fish was often putrid and tho other food coarse and unwholesome. When two patients escaped i from the hospital the others were ! forced to walk through snow to the horse-boxes, and there were three j deaths from exposure.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2871, 8 September 1916, Page 5
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142A SYDNEY MERCHANT AT RUHLEBEN Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2871, 8 September 1916, Page 5
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