EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
To the Editor. I notice in your addition of today a cablegram in reference to above. It seems France and Germany have agreed to an exchange of prisoners, but Liitain, according to Lord Newton, is against the scheme, as it may tend to prolong the war. Reading between the lines of Lord Newton's utterance, there a hint thrown ont that Britain mav join in with France, and that the exI change will apply to combatants and civilians alike. Why should not our New who are prisoners in Turkey and Germany be exchanged with those we have interned here? It would be a solution of a problem of the future, and save the State the expense,, of thciv keep and also the trouble of shifting them from winter to summer quarters ala Luekner & Co. I still think all interned men could have cut a few hundred acres of lupin and blackberry and earned their keep. I was told of "a certain man who has German feeling ■ (he had to be taken to camp under poiius escort) now being employed driving A motor at Featherston camp, and report says he is getting good wages.—l am, etc., DAN. J. HUGHES. May 17 th, 1918.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1918, Page 2
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204EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1918, Page 2
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