A BRITISH PRISON CAMP.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 15, 21 December 1915, Page 5

A BRITISH PRISON CAMP.

HOW GERMAN OFFICERS ARE TREATED. [United Press Association.] London, December 19. . The New York Associated Press correspondent visited the officers ’prison at Holyport, in Berkshire, formerly an Army preparatory school, containing 120 Army and Navy officers and 52 orderlies. The officers are compelled twice a week to proceed to an eighteen-acre playing field, containing football grounds and tennis courts. The field may be used daily for hours, if desired. The field is located outside the prison’s barbed-wire fence, and is surrounded by guards while the Germans are exercising.

- v Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Gladstone is in command of the prison, but the discipline is left to the Germans under the command of a senior officer, Commander Bochamer, who was second in command of the Gneisenau at the Falklands battde. The officers are left to their own devices within the school buildings, no British entering except on occasional visits pf inspection. Each officer receives a dollar a day and is allowed to arrange his own commissariat, the cost scarcely exceeding fifty cents, a day. No prisoner has escaped, although a „erious attempt by means of a tunnel 1 was discovered when the progress of eleven feet had been made, with sixty yards to go. | The prisoners include Dr. Martin Luther, the Emden’s surgeon; some survivors of the Falklands battle; a few merchant marine and reserve men ; also the first captive of the war. Captain Muhlbauer, who was in'command of an East African liner, without wireless, which put into Malta to escape ( the Russians and was captured a few minutes after the news of England’s declaration of war, and Herr KohlJsputter, who was astronomer at Mount j Wilson Observatory in California^