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Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1916, Page 8

When war was declared, Mr. and Mrs. C J. King, of Napier, were making a two years' tour of the Continent, and they happened at the time to be in Berlin. Mr. King was promptly arrested ana sent off with despatch to Rubleben, Mrs. King eventually getting back to London. Now the former is there too. He arrived recently in company o f six Englishmen who had been released from ißuhleben, and of 20 Englishwomen who had been repatriated. Relatives assembled at Tilbury awaiting the arrival of the 'steamer,' and it i* not surprising that recognition was not always easy. It is on record that one lady at first failed to recognise her own husband. She. had left him in Berlin a slim, clean-shaven young man; lie reached Tilbury bearded and cruelly aged—another man altogether. Speaking to a newspaper representative, Mr. King said: 'Whatever improvements there have been at Ruhleben have been solely due to the prisoners themselves. The German authorities have done absolutely nothing to better conditions. So far as the food is concerned it grows worse, and the camp lives absolutely on the parcels sent from England. If it were not for these many men would die. I would strongly advise all sending pareels to 'Ruhleben not to omit such things as butter, bread, condensed milk, tinned meat, sugar and easily-cooked breakfast foods. The bread served out in the camps is abominable stud, and not 10 per cent, of the prisoners cat it."

AMBER BEADS. The old-time nurse or mother believed that a string of amber beads tied,around the baby's neck would protect the child from sore throat. The woman of to-day charms away the baby's cough or soro throat with Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds, the medicine that is safe and sure. Price la 6d and 3a. everywhere ""'—'