ENEMY PRISONERS IN UNITED KINGDOM
50,000, MOST OF THEM AT WORK. (Rec. February 1, 8 p.m.) London, February 6. In the House of Lords, Lord Newton stated that out of fifty thousand war prisoners in .the United Kingdom, forty-one thousand were employed, mostly on such work as road-makmg; 4200 were employed at agriculture; tne balance were unfit.; .also,,,there ,wero twenty-nine thousand civilian internees, of whom about two thousand wero working, chiefly at agriculture.—Aus.N.Z. Cable ABsn.-Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 121, 8 February 1918, Page 5
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75ENEMY PRISONERS IN UNITED KINGDOM Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 121, 8 February 1918, Page 5
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