PAMPERED GERMAN PRISONERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 191, 21 April 1915, Page 3

PAMPERED GERMAN PRISONERS.

‘ Lolling back comfortably in motor ears, twenty-one German officers, the first contingent of a - party of 200 or 300, arrived at Donington Park, Leicestershire bn Saturday afternoon’ (says the “Daily Maif’}. Tliey had been brought from the south as far as Derby by train. Had they performed the rest of the journey in the same way it would have necessitated their walking two miles along a country roal from Castle Donington Station, and so it was decided to study ttierir comfort by hiring motor cars at Derby, nine miles away. The men who are guarding them —National Reservists —had to tramp the same road earlier in the week. Most of the German officers were in their blue service uniform, with flat caps. Some were smoking cigarettes, and glared haughtily at the few spectators. A score of interned German waiters, who are to act as their valets, arrived two or three days previously, and two tons of per-j sonal luggage followed the officers from Derby, ..Donington Hall is one of the finest residences in Leicestershire.The Government have spent £20,000 in adapting it as a place of detention for German officers. £