EXCHANGE OF WAR PRISONERS
AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. London, May 26. Lord Newton will make a statement in Parliament on Tuesday regarding: the negotiations for tho exchange of prisoners. Tho cnaugo in tho Governments opinion is duo to France taking the initiative. Prisoners who have been longest imprisoned will receive first attention, especially privates, who are not exempt eel from manual work like officers and non-commissioned officers. It is expected that It will take a' year to repatriate 150,000 Frenoh prisoners, who have only a railway journey across Switzerland to make. It will therefore take several months before British prisoners can oven begin to return, particularly in view ot the tonnago difricnlty.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DESPERATE FATE OF ITALIAN PRISONERS. Rome, May 26. A released Italian officer states that 350 Italian prisoners of war have died in tho Sigmundsbcrg Camp in the fifteen months ended lost October. Since then the mortality has been three times as great, mostly due ,to tuberculosis. Iho Austrian Government has taken no measures to alleviate tho sufferings,, and many prisoners ore actually starving-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 213, 28 May 1918, Page 5
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178EXCHANGE OF WAR PRISONERS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 213, 28 May 1918, Page 5
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