MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1916, Page 8

MOTHER COUNTRY.

GERMAN BRUTALITY TO PRISONERS.

SUFFERING SEVERELY. London, September S, 3! number of British released from Ruhleben have arrived in London, suffering from disease in consequence of harsh treatment. Several are in a desperate plight, and many are suffering from nervous and mental afflictions. Stretchers -had to be provided for some of them. Interned English who have arrived declare that the conditions in Germany are bad. The majority of the people are ignorant of the truth as to the Somme push. A man from Brnssolls stated that the Germans were distributing in Belgium, bogus copies of t'he Daily Mail, hardly distinguishable from the real ones, containing faked news. AN AGITATOR FINED,

EMPLOYMENT OP GERMAN PRISONERS. London, September 8, A unionist ship's steward at Stockton-on-Tees was heavily fined for trying to induce munition workers to 'reduce their output. At the British Association Congress at Newcastle several speakers regretted that the Government had failed to employ thousands of German prisoners in reclaiming land for settlement. , H. G. WELL'S PROPHECY, London, September S. Mr. H. G. Wills, interviewed in Paris by La Vietoire, said that the Germans will begin to squeal in November, and sevfn months later the war will end. He bases his prophecy on the Allied organisation, and mastery of Wie air. He added that the war had profoundly developed. Socialism in England, and he forsees after the war an Allied commission of right. ;