FOES IN CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 226, 12 June 1918, Page 5

FOES IN CONFERENCE

BRITAIN AND GERMANY AT THE HAGUE A DRAMATIC PICTURE London, June 10. The Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that at the opening 'session of Tho Hague Conference for the fechango of Prisoners of Way, a prolamine was formulated much wider tb'an many had dared to hope. It provides that tho Cooforcnce shall deal with the following subjects:— t. Scrupulous carrying ont of existing agreonionte. 2. Treatment and conditions of employment of prisoners of war.3.'Reprisal questions. ' 4. Extension of agreements concerning repatriation' or internment in other countries, 5. Methods for selection of sick and wounded wifthin thoso categories. G. Improvement .of enmp conditions, including the feeding of prisoners of war and interned mon. The correspondent eays:—"At tho moment when the delegates of the countries which-had reached n crisis in the lifo-nnd-death struggle met, ontsido the conference hall <mc could hear tho ramMe of guns in Flanders. It was a etr.augo stent to see British nnd Germans entering the samd door, tho military representatives, like tKeir civilian colleagues, wearing the top hat and frock coat of diplomacy. Outsiders wero scarcely able to distinguish friend from "nomii Tlero were no formal introductions; the delegates, simply bowing to »Rch other, took their Bents on either side of the long table at which M. Loudon presided."—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. A GERMAN DEMAND. 'Amsterdam, June 10. The "Berliner Tagcblatt" asserts that tho German delegates will deuiand the exchange of 3SM German prisoners in Africa.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. holland'sTefficultt. The Hague, June 10. XI. London (Dutch Foreign Minister), in opening tho Exchange of ■ Prisoner? Conference, indicated that Holland, owing to increasing shortage of food, was unable to receivo contingents of war prisoners for internment.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. AN INFAMOUS BREACH OF FRENCH AGREEMENT INCIDENT AT THE CHEMIN DBS DAMES. London, Juno 10. The "Daily Telegraph" correspondent on the French front quotes a letter fonnd on a German prisoner revealing a further infamous breach of the agreement under which the French and German Governments recently promised not to employ prisoners vritliin twenty jniles of the front. The letter states: "After the brsaking-in of the French positions, our mine-throwers, dragged by French prisoners, climbed up to the Chonxin 403 Dames, , 'catting the way foi- the artil-lery."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REPRISALS OnImIiCAN PRISONERS GERMANS DARED TO DO IT. New York, June. 10. Mr. James W. Gerard, lato American Ambassador in Berlin, said in a speech that ho was glad that America had dared the Germans to make reprisals on American prisoners.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.