CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 February 1916, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

[ELEOTUIO tbIkgbai'H—COI'YKIGHI.J Ll'ltu I'ttEßß ABSOW UJON j (Received This Day 9 a.m.) HOW ENGLISH PRISONERS WERE TiREATJiD AT RUBCEBEN. Sydney, This Day. Garden Harvey, a resident in Germany for sixteen years, and formerly tutor to the Princes August, Wilhelm Oscar and Joachim, and who spent one year in ttie Rulileben internment camp, has arrived here. He confirms the report of Prussian brutality at the outbreak of the war. Harvey was

English examiner tor the German navy at Kiel. On November Otli, 11)11, all Englishmen were ordered to be interned. They were a rested and submitted to every indignity and sent- to Rulileben which originally was a trotting course. The prisoners were housed in the stables, six men in each loose-box. Some of these were so 'damp that they never were used. for horses, but were .considered good enough for the English prisoners, who will suffer from rheumatism all their lives. In winter the place was » quagmire. The cold and hunger was depressing and the conditions caused by the misery and treatment meted out at t|he military camps were simply shocking. The Germans were a nation of bullies with no sense of honesty, truth or decency. They hate the linglish like poison and have no more religion than beasts. They were a nation of scoffers and a nation of rotters. They worship two things, and two alone: themselves and money. Harvey added : "When I see the sloppy sentimentality about treating the Germans nicely, it positively makes me furious. They do not pay much heed to'the feelings of the unfortunate English people in Germany." .