WAR PRISONERS.
RETENTION BY GERMANS. BITTER COMPLAINT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright, Received Dec. 2, 11.30 p.m. London, Nov, 2S. German official comment on the delay in signing the protocol to the Peace Treaty is strongly worded. It declares that the Entente has no power to retain war prisoners pending Germany's surrender of "dredgers, docks and cranes, without which the German industrial life can hardly exist. It complains that Germany has been asked to buy her prisoners back twice over, and she has no security that she will not be compelled to do the same again. The German Government will not take further risk on such uncertain legal foundations.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A REFUSAL TO WORK. Received Dee. 3, 1.15 a.m. London, Dec. 1. Sixteen hundred German naval prisoners from Scapa Flow refused to work at Oswestry Camp. The authorities withheld their rations for three days, and the prisoners then resumed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1919, Page 5
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149WAR PRISONERS. Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1919, Page 5
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