GERMAN PRISONERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1918, Page 2

GERMAN PRISONERS.

..ITPES OF REGENT CAPTURES. BAVARIAN TItdOPS' ILL-FEELING. : One machine-gunner of the .200 th infantry Regiment had Jain five day» ill the em.fr where he was captured, writes a corre-pu.ident on file western front in <le ? ..-i'i!/iu;;- Hie tvpi-n of prisoners captured during the I'as-chendaele Ridge Ik"lie. lit v. as'a thin, pale youth of 21, still a li; lie bewildered by Jiis urrival in the t'.rili-h luie~. He -aid that his Lat- ' ir-t.ir had iiad orders to hold its m u-liini'-jjiii: ] i- 1 -1 at all costs, and the ■■!:■<>J'L iT.-.idt:d i.i liic forward couipAuie|j • cinjr jierirly \t'-rri.iisai. '(i. None "i i'ieii: expected, : haf Germany >' '»ild nil! liie -ear. and il was common talk thai peace some kind would he aivhcd a; by li.c vnd of (he year. Tin: I'jiar'M-. make the ii-ual ailei: ions o£ ur.i.lii- !re li men!.. Tliey jjivo i lie ini-prc,:-iii!i (lie ilMeelili'; 1 between 'b t' - - i.i i; an I I'-tmrian i roups is much in..re ; ui i- ;i ild there appears to bo ;ond o".'.li'.a I urn for this belief. .Some of I lie-.' I'i.viuvm (roi. | I'.-i, who bad arrived "ill;.- a day - before from .another .Mrl oi lhe i'roui afier a Ion;; period of ''-I. and "a no were iniiiiediaiciy 1 iirown 'lf •Vii'il line, declared Umt they e! e beii a a.-ribeea. A uai.ialion .eom- " .li"i 'l'. V.- 111 Ml ii:: L lie Would be shot if ."'a.e iifi.) ila •. Iron:, line. JJiirijiLf the ■a".; .'a ii-au 'iiieii- i-.illi'i.. i lie. mun kept -1 r.il:_ij?jand ti>v oiiieers who rounded ■ i.em nit and oi'dercl the column to keep ici'imaiou were jeered at without any alicmpt beiii;.; made to jmniaU the often-

A- : rd- 1; 1 1■ condition of the prisonor-. (liu .i wr.i\ - iiine is ltikk!. Many iv,.,.riy. iiii/Myum as "were in the liii!-' <>> c■ -lj• <: 1 . Bnme rog'i-im-m--, had ifi' 1 Hi! .• Ijoi• n issued a freali i ;i !. sun! !!«• wen wiir.! huw clothes,,and v: 1 !i 'i I ii'"v iv; l pv i!iL;' :ijiji:i)':il ii-s, jorac (| ! v,.),! i v,',;i]| R ,.(iU>,j :i:i tliey were r. • ">ii'iMii il:o depot. A new leather >n:!:'r. !.•>( »-o;i!|».iril,v in n cylin'•l'ic.i' Mi , :: 1 lilt sl ull ,, arross till-? shoillll- ' ■ u':'!':: ' 1 l:'"'-rlv all tile prisoners, ■ i:> ■ i::i i ■ of miM be picked '' ' 1 a 1 jll't-:icl. Tlie cumbersome -•""•I s»'l M-lun't.; r.w in some instances ''' eowied I'.iih khaki, another idea '■'! l i"'' iron. us. Many of the officers, i>!iviir!il>ir:\' llie Guard*. ' were quite ■ lire-;. tri/;•. :{tul Their uniforms '"'•i'- . m' v.r!! i pi—some hail been ■" i 1:!!! ;-, (.lie day before the battic, ;ni'i lird not i ime in become stained and mad iy before falling into our hands.