PRISONERS IN GERMANY.
.. - A PITIFUL CONDITION. 1
TAUSTRALIAN it N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION it RETTTEB.] LONDON January 27. New Zealand soldiers from Germany jnow interned in Switzerland, spent much time at Dulmpu. Two attempts to escape failed. Allied prisoners wore brutally treated, and manv of our men were starved at Dulmen, and were in a pitiful condition. There were three camps, each holding nine hundred, attached to Burgsteinfurt, and consisted of underground dungeons in the sand. In winter it was awful, and in summer it teemed with fleas. The New Zealanders spent eight months in one camp. The German non-commissioned officers treated the prisoners well; hut at Hohenfurst and similar camps it was hell upon earth. The New Zealanders witnessed the Mannheim raid. Though it failed it had ,considerable effect on the people. He was convinced that if the raids continued drastically, they would do much to hasten the end of the war. ’
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1918, Page 2
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