Great Britain
WITTENBERG CAMP CONDITIONS (United Prem Association.] (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, April 16. A British prisoner named Cassol, in a letter, describes the conditions, recalling the reports of Wittenberg camp. He says they were over-crowd-ed arid none were aide to wash for live months. The sanitary arrangements were horrible. Typhus broke out among the Russian prisoners, and the authorities deliberately mixed up the Russians and British in order to infect the latter. Many deaths occurred daily, and only the efforts of tw6 English doctors prevented the disease wiping out the camp.
HEALTH OF MR HUCHEQ. (Received 8 a.m.) London, April 16. Mr Hughes is recuper§ting and shows steady improvement
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 12, 17 April 1916, Page 5
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110Great Britain Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 12, 17 April 1916, Page 5
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