TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONERS.
MB’. MASSEY’S SENTIMENTS,
Mr W. 11. Field (Otaki) asked the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives yesterday, whether, in view of the fact that Now Zealand troops were fighting at the front and some of the men might lie taken prisoner by the enemy, was it not time for the voice of this country to he heard on the maltreatment of .British prisoners in Germany; and whether Germany should not he informed by the British Government that any person found guilty of maltreating prisoners would he duly punished for his crime when the war was over? .Mr Massey said that he would be glad to communicate with the British Government on the matter, but perhaps not (pute on the lines suggested. They were concerned about the treatment of all British prisoners in Germany, and particularly for their own men; and if any maltreatment of New Zealand soldiers took place amongst the Germans, then he, for one, would be inclined to apply the Mosaic, law, and apply it to the very letter. (Hear, hear).
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1574, 8 July 1916, Page 2
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178TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1574, 8 July 1916, Page 2
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