OUR HUN PRISONERS.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 September 1918, Page 2

OUR HUN PRISONERS.

“It’s an absolute rest cure,” said a repatriated British soldier on Saturday when about fifty German prisoners who had been sifting cinders hind Wood LanFlVtation, 'London, were driven away to their camp for the week-end. “1 wonder what I should have got if I had taken my work so easily in Germany?” ho added. These well-fed Germans arrive at 9 a.m. sift as many cinders as they fancy, smoke when they please, and look at the papers At 4 p.m. on ordinary days and 12.30 on Saturdays they are driven back in a lorry to their camp. In Germany we had to walk to our work, no matter how far, and if wo had slackened we should have got the butt-end of a rifle on our heads. I spoke to a German prisoner the other day. He told me he did not want to go back to Germany,”