IMPERIAL TRADE PREFERENCE
BRITISH PRISONERS CRUELLY TREATED
CRITICAL ARTICLE IN FRENCH j JOURNAL \ CLAIMS OF THE ALLIES ; Paris, May 22. < The "Journal des Debate," in a strong ■ nrticlo against British Imperial prefer- j ence, thinks that error may sprins from a sentimental desire to satisfy the Do- ' minions. If preference is given in order • that the Empire may he militarily more \ self-sufficent in a future war, then it j should ho. remembered that France and < Belgium are much nearer than the Do- j minions, and that France and Belgium J have done all that is possible in the pre- ( sent -war. Preference will close the Bri- J tisb markets to France and Britain's c . other Allies; and the other nations affected by the new British regime will | probably organise a special Customs sys- ' tern on the Continent.—Aus.-Jf.Z. Cable ? Assn. i
BEHIND THE GERMAN FIRING LINE. i (Kec. May '2.1, 7 p.m.) London, Hay 22. In the House of Lords, Lord Newton (Minister in Charge of Prisoners of War) c replying to a question, stated that one 1_ or two German prisoners had been p wounded by long-range shell lira, and ( Germany had therefore demanded that all prisoners should be removed thirty \ kilometres (about 19 miles) behind the T line. The Allies had complied with this a demand, but the British Government T had since discovered that lor many months five hundred British prisoners had been employed behind the Gorman lines, and demanded that the practice should be discontinued. Three British prisoners irho escajed in April stated that hundreds of British prisoners had X been employed behind the German lines since November last. Thev had been treated with great brutality, and the food ration was only sufficient to sustain , life. They had no changu of clothing, " and many had died. Lord Newton added l that unless the Government received an '.' nssurance that this practice had ceased, j; as was hoped, the War Cabinet would '' 'take drastic measures. . _
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3092, 24 May 1917, Page 5
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