PRISONERS OF WAR.
WELL TREATED IN ENGLAND,
RUSSIA'S BIG HAUL
(Received 9 a.m.) ""
LONDON, February 28.
I The Rome "Tribuna" eatfmatee that there are 600,000 Austrian and German - prisoners in Russia; 60,000 in Servia; 1 and 35,000 in France and ■EvgtMnd.
It is officially, announced in Petrograd - that since the-beginning ..of' General Brusiloff's "army" "captured! - ---1,900 officers and 186,000 men.
The neutral representatives of the International Red • Cross Society toured the war camps in! Britain. They report that-the treatment of prisoner* ia;excel-: lent and greater- fairness is impossible. Neither the German Government nor the - families of prisoners need have any anx-'. iety ; about Britain's •■■.treatment of' pri-; soners...' -.'~'..,'■'..''■'.-..'. ~Xi-ir%~
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 51, 1 March 1915, Page 5
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