LIBERATED WAR PRISONERS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 52, 26 November 1918, Page 5

LIBERATED WAR PRISONERS

1500 RELEASED FROM RUHLEBEN CAMP. (Rec. November 25, 8.20 p.m.) Copenhagen, November 23. Danish ships "which arrived with fifteen hundred British prisoners from Ruhleben Camp received an enthusiastic welcome and the best treatment. They include tho crews who were captured by the raiders Moewe and Wolf. All are in good health and well clothed, the latter fact being due to parcels received from England.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. NEW ZEALAND WAR PRISONERS FIRST BATCH ARRIVES. (Rec. November 25, 8.20 p.m.) . London, November 21. New Zealand is establishing a depot at Dover to provide comforts for war prisoners arriving via Calais. It is estimated that only 330 New Zealand prisoners are in Germany, Lady Mackenzie 'entertained the first batch' at tea at New Zealand House. Those wero chiefly from tho prison camps in the vicinity of Lille. They generally agroo that, npnrt from the scarcity of rations, they were well treated, although tho enemy did not fulfil the agreement not to employ prisoners within the firo zone. Somo were even engaged digging German first-line trenches. One relates that he was in a German .hospital containing eighteen hundred or the enemy wounded. He received cqnat treatmont and also special diet to suit his case.

Private Wells, of the Otako , Rifles, got through the German lines just prior to the armistice. ( He escaped from the prison camp somo time ago, secured civilian clothes, and, being a good linguist, lived as a, French civilian unmolested until he found a chance of sretting through the lines.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.