STERN REPRISALS DEMANDED

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 32, 1 November 1918, Page 5

STERN REPRISALS DEMANDED

FOR HUNNISH TREATMENT OF WAR | PRISONERS "":■:''■"' 1 London, Octobei' 30. ' j In his statement .'as to .the treatment j of prisoners, Sir George Cavo stated:— ; "We have asked for nothing which a civilised Government would not - give' ! without being asked. If our demands are | not granted tlte Government will erideav- i our to give our gallant men in Ger- ; many the utmost possible protection and ; vto avenge their sufferings." ' Mr. Craig said he regretted that his : first act since his return from Germany ; was to make the strongest indictment , against the Government for its treat, meut of tho prisoners of wan- question. , His experience showed that if the Gov- ■; ornment had done its duty, the lives of j thousands of men might hdve_ been easy, instead of unutterably miserable. Ine ' Germans only understood the argument \ of the big stick. The prisoners com- j plained that that argument had never . been used in their interests Weijiif , make it clear," he said, "that the fullest ; iustice is done to all those' inhuman | wretches who have treated the prisoners : vilely and barbarously. We must- take ; reprisals, and firmly carry them out. - ; Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. j

CONTINUED VIOLATION OF THE HAGUE j

CONVENTION • ' . I New York, October 30. I The Germans are continuing to violate The Hague Convention. This is weakd by an announcement by the Brihsh oftrial bureau in New York (hat when the troops of the British sth Army, under General Birdwood, captured German Bed , Cross Wagons, it was found that they , were loaded with ammumhon.-A.us.-JM. j Cable Assn. j