BRITISH WAR VETERANS RELEASED
FOOD PROVIDED BY GERMANS VERY BAD. Amsterdam, December 31. A number of British officers and noncommissioned officers taken prisoner in the Heligoland light havo arrived from Germany, and also a largo party of men taken in tho Battle of Mons. Tho latter received a rapturous reception from tho Hollanders. Tho Allied Ambassadors road the King's Mossago and other messages of welcome, voicing tho thanks of the Allies for tho self-sacrifice of tho sadlythinned rearguards which had enabled tho French and British to reach the Marne. Tho released men anxiously asked how tho war was really going. They said: "Tell the peoplo at home that their parcels saved us. The food provided by the Germans was very had." Quarters have been provided for tha released prisoners at Sclievcningcn, near Tho Hague, and include recreation grounds, clubs, hospitals, and work-shops.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MEN IN GERMAN PRISON CAMPS PERISH OF STARVATION. New York, December 31. One of tho raider Moewo's captives has returned. Ho says (.hat he saw starving men in German prison camps cat grass. Fifteen hundred prisoners perished of starvation in a month.— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assu,
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 84, 2 January 1918, Page 5
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189BRITISH WAR VETERANS RELEASED Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 84, 2 January 1918, Page 5
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